LABOUR TROUBLES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2909, 7 March 1891, Page 2

LABOUR TROUBLES.

(BY ELECTRIC TKLKGIt/U'H— COPYRIGHT.) London. March 3. Tiik unions threaten to call out thirty thousand seamen aud firemen if the federation ticket is made compulsory. The Shipping Federation experience no difficulty in working the thirteen ships at Albert Docks which were blocked by waterside unions. Owing to the difficulty with the unions, a Cardiff shipping firm, with a capital of £600,000, has resolved to remove to Antwerp. March 5. The dockers are returning to work. They have withdrawn their delegates from the joint labour committee, and refuse to join the general strike, The strikers at. Cardiff arc appealing to the shipping federation to arrange a settlement of the dispute. Fifteen out of thirty blast furnaces have been re-lit The shipping strike is spreading northwards. The port of Aberdeen is now blocked. Efforts are being made to induce Mr Goschen to act as chairman of the Labour Convention. Mr J. B. Patterson, ex-Commis-sioner of Customs in Victoria, in addressing a gathering of working men at Alnwick, declared that a universal strike meant universal starvation. March 5. The shore unions in London have agreed to return to work and remove the blosks.

Mr Burns has tabled a motion opposing the statutory condition o: labour.