TRADES AND LABOUR
COLLIERY AND SHIPPING
TROUBLES.
THE AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE,
London, Febuary 19 The Marquis of Londonderry has evicted 600 families from his estate at Sicksworth, and this action will probably q strike throughout the entire coalfields of Durham,
The membership of the Shipping Federation represent an aggregate of seven million tons.
Febuary 20. The attempt to affect a compromise between the United Labor Council and the Shipping Federation has failed, the letter virtually insisting on an unconditional surrender by those on strike. The Union is incensed at the aocion of the Federation, and declare that the proposals of the 13th inst.,in which it was agreed that no preference was to be giren to nonunion men, have not been observed. The Union leaders turther state that it the Federation on Monday insists on a general acceptance of the Federation tioket, a lock-out is inevitable, and that it will be followed by a colossal strike of the maritime trades.
The Unions are exerting political pressure to secure charters.
Free labourers are abundant at Cardiff.
The Shipping Federation are discharging the Ruapehu. They demand that the men shall resume work before they will enter upon fresh negociations,
The block of shipping at the docks was worse to-day. .Brisbane, February 20,
The Government has received a telegram from Clermont that a serious outbreak between Union and nonunion shearers is imminent, and a battery of artillery and a detachment of mounted infantry have een despatched to the scene.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3743, 23 February 1891, Page 2
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244TRADES AND LABOUR Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3743, 23 February 1891, Page 2
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