LABOUR TROUBLES.
iKY Ki,Kcn;i<' •n:r,K',uAi'ii.-~ivii'VKi(;Hr. | li.\, February li. In Ih'-l'vi'-i! i,;' a .-1 rii-■•_';!<■ at Mull llie vhiiwii •■Hi'l iloi-kvr* will app"al to tlio ('ontinoni. Aiwri*-;*, :in>l Australia for assistance. 'J. 'lip' railway men al ('aidill' ha.\e decided to remain neutral. Shi]lowners an- iimv discharging their uu !i vessels. I'Vbruary 10. 'I'll-' < x ■ ii(•;iH■;11 at (.'aHill' lias not abated, aid !rian- Iwinj; despatched tn preserve older. Tin• Shipping Kedcraiioii is determined In supply men, and a blockade of the coastal irafiic is threatened in jiiiisi■<jmilic< W\sliimnon. February !t. Twelve thousand coke men in Pennsylvania threaten t<> strike. Highly thousand colliers will b att'eeted by their action. Nkw Voijk, February Id. The eokeinen in l'ennyslvania have crone out oil strike, which seriously aih ets a. laiire number of collieries. The labour unions in Chicane threaten to stop the erection of the building for the World's Fair if free labour is employed. Later. The combined resistance of tin* unions against (lie shipping federation labourers ii likely to extend to .dl the ports. Several vessels are blocked at J lull and Cilasgow, ami it is feared that shortly one hundred and forty thousand seamen, docker*, coal | Ilea,vers, stevedores and. lighter ineu will be involved, and the agitation may possibly extend to the railway men and miners.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2899, 12 February 1891, Page 2
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213LABOUR TROUBLES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2899, 12 February 1891, Page 2
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