TRADES AND LABOUR

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3741, 20 February 1891, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR

THINGS AT HOME.

THE AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE.

Londox, February 17.

Riggeis, boatmen, and others engaged in waterside pursuits at Cardiff, have gone out on strike as an expression of sympathy with the dockers, seamen, and coal heavers. It is feared that the railway inen will foljqw suit, Unfounded fears that a difficulty would be experienced in discharging the cargo of frozen meat by the s.s. Matatua, has caused New Zealand mutton to rise a }d. There is abundance of free Jabqr at the docks, ■_ a February 18. The withdrawal of the obnoxious manifesto issued by the United Labour Council of London, on the •sth Beepmber, calling uppn workmen represented by them to abstain from doing any work, either direct or indirect, that would conduce to the sailing ot the vessels of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, the New Zealand Shipping Company, and the British India Steam Navigation Company, has produced an excellent effect, and a cpmprornise w|(.h the Shipping Federation' is now considered probable. The strike has extended to Swansea. The block in the Thames is increasing. The owners, of vessels Lave offered the dock companies to provide shelter for free labourers. Thp strike in Sguth Wales has extended to Penarth sod Barry, Beisbanb, February 18. The publicans at Clermont threaten! to throw their houses open to Unionist shearers free of charge. The authorities have decided to close all tbe hotels in the district in the event of the trouble becoming more acute. A large tract of county in the disturbed district is now on fire. February 19. Large bodies of Unionists are arriving at Clermont. They are armed principally with revolvers and Winchesters. Nearly a tfnub'ancj Unionists arp encamped in''the" yjointly 'qf Bavcaldine/