TRADES AND LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3640, 16 October 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOR.

SuropmwMMtattMt; London October 15. Owing to the renewed troubles with the corn porters, the. Dockers' Committee is engaging hundreds of permanent hands at 24s per week, October 14, The labourers at Albert Dock have refu's'ed'to'-'wtirk'bvertinie.- ■> ■ • ''"'" October If A oongress of Wi&Wi'M kH'IS held at Lille, in North-Western France, at which 212 trades unions are represented. A resolution of sympathy with the Australian strikers was passed; also another landing the unions of Europe and America who Hro insißti^bw't^ 1 •legislation of th/j eiglit botfrs-' system'. '*'■•s. < >'i'- I'-'''

'TJie.engificera |iave agreed to a weekly''leyy "of fj(f)n "BJ3" : <)f' "thj> Australian strikers, Commenting on a letter descriptive of the strikes in Australia, the Times , „!* toa >' i' WM& »' tbe magnitude ofthe struggle and »t the power and pretensions of tbe leaders, also the extreme developmentsof thewnflict betveeu capital and labor, Colncil will tin TWday consider the request-received fro'hi Mr Edwards, secrete' jo the labor Defence .Committee in 'asking for a lean of L 20.000.' Mr Burns suggests that the Engineer's Society should advance Synpy, Qctober \i, Mr Brennan, President qf "the Trades Council, is & candidate tor t|io seat, in tho House of Assembly vacated by the death of Mr Alfred Lamb. ■'■'•■ Strike matters are quiet in the Southern district;, The Coal Cliff and Mount Kembla mines aro working by rqean? of free