AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2825, 21 August 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.

lIV KLECTRIC TKIiKfSKAI'It — COl'YBIOltT.) SYDNKV, August 1!). Cue seamen, cook 6, and stewards linve lield meetings at. which they resolved to give 21 hours' notice that they will leavetheir ships and support the officers. The Union Company of Now Zealand is the only intercolonial company not affected by the present difficulty. The English ship-owners havo instructed their agents here to ship wool shorn by noil-Unionists at all hazards. The Marine Officers havo resolved not to sail in any vessel carrying non-Union shorn wool. There is an active demand for produce, owing to apprehensions of the stoppago of steamer traffic. The shearers have received a telegram, from the American Knights of Labour, offering their support. Later. The wharves present a deserted appearance. The wharf labourers came out in a body afc two o'clock this aftornoon, and the seamen are coming out as their notices expire. Masters and stevedores are advertising for labour to load and discharge vessels. All vessels in port, except boats trading to New Zealand, havo been laid up. The coal lumpers have decided to strike to-night. August 20. The wharf labourers have received the following cable from Antwerp :—" Won't forget London dockers' strike. Bound to assist. Never fear." Twenty-three steauievs ;v.re now laid up at various Australian ports. JVIISLIiOUIINK, August 19. Tho officers are leaving the vessels, and are being replaced by uouUnionists. The Amalgamated Engineers are offering to loud the officers a sum of £2000. Mr Speight, Railway Commissioner, does no t anticipate any difficulty in obtaining a supply of coal tor the railways. Later. The Maritime bodies have resolved to come out to-morrow, August 20. Employers are considering the advisability of throwing in their lot with the Shipowners' Union and closing their foundries, engineering works, and factories now employing Union labour. Adklaidk, August 10. Tho shipping trade is proceeding as usual, the difficulty failiug to operato against the employers. JiBISIIASE, August l'J. • The Maritime difficulty is assuming serious dimensions. The Maritime Counctl have ordered all hands to leave the steamers in port. Later. Managers, clerks, and other officials are engaged in discharging cargo on the wharves. London, August 111. At tho celebration of the anniversary of tho dockers' strike sympathy was expressed with the strikes in Melbourne. EMIGRATION DISCOURAG ED Loniion, August 19. At a meeting in St. James' Hall the Standing Committee proposed to discourage the emigration of men to Australia during the strikes there.