LABOUR QUESTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2765, 3 April 1890, Page 2

LABOUR QUESTION.

(B7 TELEGBAPH.-4cOPYRIOHT). ■ *■"< ■"% ! ' .LoyDON, March 31. I The, Metropolitan Gas Company jhas refusnd to employ Unionists, owirigito the threat of the leaders to strike- without notice. At a meeting of workmen a resolution was passed in favour of holding a celebration in May on the subject of an International Eight Hours Bill. The Durham colliers demand improved sanitation and housing. The London Dock Union ; has voted £1000 in aid of the Liverpool strikers. Madrid, April 1. ~ Trade Unionists at Catalonia have gone out on strike, a reduction in the number of-'hours worked. „,,, Vienna, April 1. Fifteen thousand masons eugaged in the city have gone out on strike, demanding nine hours' labour. Their action has resulted in throwing 30,000 artizans out of work. Si'DNKY, April 1. ! The International Wharf Labourers' Conference has agreed to federation. The objects are to devise means of settlement" of differences with;;-employers by the aggregation of power, and to- enforce legitimate and necessary claims/when a simgle Union finds the task beyond its strength.) It has:also been decided ,to ask for consolidating measures respecting eight hours' labour, and to take steps to secure direct repre* limitation of labour in Parliament. The Conference has also agreed that steps should, ultimately be taken to establish a minimum rate of wages paid to men and women in Australia. , L