TRADES AND LABOUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4003, 4 January 1892, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

.. The Eight Hours Movoawt. TMOsrnw Pastors' Strike. By Tedegraph-Pbess Association, London, December 80. The Yorkchire miners advocate an international strike for eight hours. January 1. . In addition to tho donation of 11500 sent to the assistance of the German printers by the Engineers' Association, other unions are sendiJV £IOOO. "^ Mr G. Bhipton, secretary of the House Decorators' and Painters' Imiou, is appealing through the" Times for money to assist the printers. Thirty thousand seamen Wi qualified to receive benefits shipping federation scheme. Tom Mann, addressing the Engineer's Association, urged the members to bo above party politics and secure legislation for the protection and benefit of trade, and strengthen their position in society, Tom Mann has abandoned his views for universal eight hours in favour of local option in the matter of adopting the principle, . A Workers' Co-operative Omnibus Company, with twenty 'busses, will start in London ia March. The collieries in Normanton, in the Wakefield district of Yorkshire, are idle, the horses engaged in the mines having ■ been attacked with influenza,.

Berlin, December 31. Tko statement that tho printers strike has collapsed is premature. January 1, Conflicting reports are ouront respecting the printers' strike. The masters assert they havn refused to re-engage the men, and deny that they have surrendered the position first taken up.