TRADES AND LABOUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3647, 24 October 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

ENGLISH AND EUROPEAN. THE AUSTRALIAN POSITION, London, October 21, The Trades Union Congress has sent £IOOO to Australia by cable. ' The Sailors Union are also arranging to send £1000; Mi Murphy has cabled Homo tbat Mr Champion is an enemy of the labor party. He says the strikers are still struggling, and will win if assistance is afforded, October 22. It ii denied that the shipowners intend to lay their vessels up in consequence of the attitude' of tho labor combinations. The idea is generallj condemned, and on account of the necessity of conveying the mails is believed to be impossible. Vienna, October 22.

Tho tramway employeos, who struck for an increase of wages, have resumed work, .the directors of tho company having in a slight dogrca conceded the demands of tho men. Btdney, October 22, While a number of free laborers were proceeding to Wanono mine,' at Bulli, several trucks came flying down tho incline, They wero stopped in time to avert a calamity, and the train again attempted; to proceed. Crowds of men and women then lay j down on tho rails and refused to budge. Tho train had to return, but a body of troops were despatched- to tho scene, and another attempt will be made to get the free laborers to tlia pit to-morrow, , : _ Adelaide, October 23. The action of the local branch of the Marine Engineers' Society in refusing to sail with ; non-unionists unless the employers granted a, conference, is not supported by tho branches in the other colonies. Tho Sydney executive passed a resolution strongly condemning their action,