TRADES AND LABOUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3653, 4 November 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

| AUSTBALIAN AND ENGLISHI JiOjdon, NovemM'l.: | Mr J. D. Fitzgerald, the Sydney labour delegate, in an interview, with a representative of the Pall 1 Mall Gazette stated that the strike in '. Australia was owinc; to the masters ' attempting to stash up the Unions. ' The kernel of the matter wasnotths \ question of the employment of'frea labor, The employers were, he said, ■'" determined to protest against the right oftbo men to form Unions, and he strongly denounced tho telegram sent to Englaml from Australia by Mr E Champion. .. ' The labor leaders are jubilant at the defeat of Mr Gillies' Government inViotoria, . , ; ; The Times, referring to the defeat of tho Victorian Government, say a it is based on a general Bonse of Government delinquency, and. tho disapproval of the strikers is only, one taotor. The Times declares that it is sheer impudence on the part of J,D, Fitzgerald to assert that tho' employers bsve interfered with the formation of Unions by the labor ■ party. MrG. Shipton, Secretary of the London Trades Council, is arranging for a mass meeting of Unionists for Thursday next, to wolebme the Sydney labour delegate, Mr J. D, Fitzgerald, Mr Fitzgerald denies that tho refusal of the Australian Unionists to work with free labourers wbb the origin of the strike as first mooted in a letter written to the Melbourne Age by Mr Champion, the English labour advocate, Mr Burns states that he is in-. ' credulous aa to the genuineness Champion's cable message. Mr Fitzgerald unfurled the sailorß* banner at Poplar to-day, and in the course of a speech said tho primary " object of Ms visit to England was to -:■ explaro the exact position of affairs in Australia, and not a begging expedition, This statement was received with loud cheering, . . Mr Tom McCarthy, of the Dockers' Union, declared that the overthrow of the Gillies' Government proved that tho reported collapse of UtQ strike was baseless, . '.: v; : ■ A circular just issued by the Unionists appeals fo the trades for an advance of money' to ; assist .; : the Australian strikers, arid guarantees that'a«y money advanced, will' Jip ! repaid, • £be circular %w. on to' say: .' that it is advisable t(il be generous ..'• jin view of the likelihood, pf a n,ulij.., '' 'hide of the brethrenbelu^compelled-■ Ito seek shelter in Au.Bt)a^iaV' ; -' :; '-. j deferring to tbp : defeat'of the • Gillies, Government, the St. James 1 \ Gazetto doubts, \yhither .Air!Munro. : will tolerate rowdyism.:more ftim djd. ''•'. Mr GilhW'''■'.;■'■■.:•■ ;,:.•: - ; j _ November^, 1 A circular issued by the Tr«d«i