TRADES AND LABOUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3656, 7 November 1890, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN, MASS MEETING, MR CHAMPION HOOTED. (United Press Association.) London, November 4. Eight hundred dockers at the Victoria Docks have struck. work owing. to the half hour for dinner being disallowed, At a large meeting of unionists at jMlfeEnd, Mr JD Fitzgorald, the Sydney labour delegate, repudiated ! the statement of Mr H H Champion, the English labour advocate, that the strike in Australia <vas due.to the employers preventing marine officers from forming a union, and; asaertod that tho struggle would have been attended with success had not employers prevented maritime bodies lrom recoiyjng help from Newcastle miners, the shearers, and Broken Hill miners, The capitalist press had, be said, misrepresented the strikers in tho cable messages which had been published from.the colonies, und the next election in the colonies would bo fought on the labor ticket. Resolutions of sym, patby, and that supportbe continued were carriod. Mr Tom Maim denied that Mr Champion was in communication with the JDookers' Union,

The unionists marched iu procession to a meeting at Mile End, headed by bands and flying banners,' Mr John .Burns presided at the meeting, which was attended by fully 7000, representing all the trades of great Britain, In the course dJf liis address Mr Eitagerald asserM that Mr Champion had done \utold .liarin in Australia,: and had ohangeil the issue ftqra. the first, by mooting the omployment of free labor. }le galied the leaders of the English union? to repudiate Mr Champion's aetwi, Mr Mann, sgsa|i«g on. behalf of 1 leaders, bolJeYefl that Mr Champion's conchiot irj had. been oven more indisopt than while'-hTfas inEngland, ■..'■ .v- v iC;s. Sydney, November 5, It:is. understood that tlio owners have stipulited; to cut coal for all wela whether, unioni.ot nQn,>uu]qu,

and that the luiuera Juave taken 1 timi -IP to.consider the decision, V; 1,. ■; ; " ■' between the.New- - castle, mine owners and miners is proceeding, . Fitzgerald's references to Mr ; ; Uampipn at the meeting of unionists .- : at Mile find were received with loud ■■■ groans andories of-iShoot him; he - 1 dare not return," : ■-.;. m-\ : ;^ E^Sember6;.; V; :v : Thewhar laborers have decided J, T efused;to.r::: entertain a proposal to • te fe t - the - question ballot. There« a fireatV / .Replying toa question m the House^t;'..'. menUateatliafctbey-only-intenaea.:,; to afford rehef inV page sVof : actual ■: starvation, :- :f;V ■■■>-:-- : ; ..;■%•-. : - almost eertain to^^^e^inl^bt^" ■ : : Tuesdaj. Miners : bavei.as^^a;'. V resolutwn that the strike baa,- shown ; ': ;^ he folly of euforoirig; V high; en >£ -i trance fee to join, the union,-and ' " tbey;reomomend that'-:the fee! be ■: ■'■:, abolished. ;^ ; ;k;-^:-::«''; ■'■' :\^' - %1': Melbourne, November 6Y '-$&. "■ Ino stnke'is, virtually; over, and ■: members;:: of:iiriouKtrades iareV arranging to return;to:work ;-;' %■'■>■'■-. '■■'■} - SoßAM^ofember 0. H The wharf laborers have.giyen in, and return to-'work.'- •' ...