AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2830, 2 September 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

SUPPORT PROM LONDON. USE OP DYNAMITE AND RIFLES ADVOCATED. LARRIKINISM. INCREASE IN PL'EKUITS. (itY ELECTRIC TELWiKA I'll — (JOI'YRIC IIT,) London, August 251. In response to a cablegram from Australia for monetary assistance in connection with the Maritime strike the Dockers' Union have wired to all branches in Britain asking special daily donations. They are also requesting help from other local unions. A meeting of delegates from the various Trades Councils has been called to organise a National Defence Fund. London is placarded with a manifesto of meeting. The Newcastle Shipowners have decided to join the proposed Union. August 30. Half nf the first £1000 contributed by the dockers to the Australian strikers will lie sent t>, Melbourne, and the remainder to Sydney. Collections were made on the London docks and wharves to day. A huge demonstration is proposed, and posters will be got out invting Britishers to rally for Australia, If the branches consent, the National Sailors' Union will send £1000 to the colonies. Coal porters and others are holding meetings with a view to givii.g pecuniary assistance to the strikers. A resolution will be proposed at the Liverpool Trades Union Congress, expressing symnathy with the Australians,'and urging all Unions to support them. The Saturday Review says that if employers show resolution and self-sacrifice thev will defeat the strikers.

The associated shipowners have resolved at all costs to uphold the action of the Shipowners' Association in Victoria in regard to the marine officers disassociating themselves from other bodies. It is projected to form a Shipowners' Union, and it will probably be supported by all small kindred associations, All tho lending shipping bodies will be represented at the meeting on Tuesday. A scheme is afloat to form a Free Lubour Association, the members of which are to be non-unionists. This movement is in opposition to the scheme which is being formed to turn the Dockets Union into a co-operative guild of restricted members. The Daily Telegraph denounces John Burns for introducing coercion into tho labour agitation, and in the course of the same article, warns the Trades Unions Congress which is to meet at Liverpool against encouraging the modern developments of labour unions. The Shipping Gazette says London is gradually losing its position as the centre of the world's commerce. Capital, it remarks, cannot bo cribbed, cabined, and confined by the dock labours, who arc better paid and work shorter hours than was the case previous to the groat dock strike. Sydnhy, September 1. Replying to an offer of the labour organisation to provide 500 special constables the Government declined, expressing regret at the recent action of some of the strikers in maltreating their fellow lab'iuiets who were pursuing their lawful calling. . and who, despite the assutance of the Unions, they know would maintain a peaceable attitude. The barricading of tho principal Newcastle wharves is now complete. The Treasurers of the various unions state that unless a settlement is offocted within a week, the whole of the labour organisations will be directed to withdraw their funds from the various banks and place them in a Bank to be established by the Labour I lefence Committee. The Herald commenting on Saturday's meeting, says the strikes failed to show that tit") principles of trades unions were in any way imperilled, while on the other hand the owners have emphatically repudiated any intention of attacking them. Later. The proceedings of the Miners' Conference are being conducted privately. The crows of the steamers Taieri and Tarawera have been discharged ; the Ohau's crew refused to leave the vessel, and the Mararoa's crew have refused duty. The shipment of fish by the latter vessel has been landed. The new Meicantile Officers' Association is making substantial headway, and as it is not allied with any other labour organisation it is expected that members of this society will receive precedence in tilling up vacancies oaused bv the present crisis. The Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company now has the Melbourne-Tasmania trade in its own hands, and the Australian United Statin |Navigation Company has the Sydney-Queensland trade, whilo the Melbourne traffic is at a standstill. Both the Howard Smith and Messrs Hubbart, l'arkor and Co.'s fleets are wholly laid up. The Tasinanian Steam Navigation Company and the Australian Unit 3d Steam Navigation Company are working their boats slowly by means of free crews, and it is expected that during the week most of the other companies will resume under similar conditions. As each vessel's complement is made up they are to bo despatched. Biusiunk, September 1. Strike pay is being allowed at the rate of los per week. Mki.iiouiinh, September 1. Tho secretary of the Victorian steamship owners has received a cable message from a kindred body in London stating that the former may fully rely on the cordial cooperation of the latter body, which is also prenared to render substantial monetary assistance to enable a firm stand to be made against tho strikers. At a meeting of fifty thousand workmen, held in Flinders Port yesterday, some Socialists took part in the meeting and delivered a harangue to a se:tion of the crowd, advocating rifles and dynamite to secure the abolition of the capitalist class. The public feeling against the leaders of tho strike is strengthening since it has been generally recognised that there was no necessity fur calling out the gas stokers except with a view of terrorising and cowing public opinion. Later. The larrikins have set fire to a shed erected by the free labourers at tho Collingwood Gas Works but the fire has been extinguished. The Corporation light the city by electricity to-night. Freights were raised another 2.") percent to-day. Adelaide, September 1. The leading Unionists assure tho i'ress that the Maritime Council deeply regrot undertaking to fight the battle of the officers, who are merely using the seamen to secure their own demands.