LABOUR TROUBLES.
(liV KLEIJTKIC TKt,IT.HAriI—COI'VKtIJIIT.) Loxnox, March 1:5.' In is strike of dockers, stevedore.-, eoalheavers. etc., at Plynionlh hiis collapsed owing- to a revolt of some of I'.i'c officers of ilio unions against Witson (secretary of the .Shimon's Union ) A number of nion who were coerced into joining unions have withdrawn, ami entereu the. ranks of free labour firs. Sir John Gorst- will not l>c a niember of the Labour Commission, a seel ion of tlio Cabinet objecting to him en the ground that his views are too advanced. The Lord High Chancellor (l)aron Halsbury) is opposed to any great changes being made in the law as to the relations of employers and employed. ' NYAsinxirrox. March 11. Fifteen thousand men have struck in Pennsylvania for eight hours a day. This is t'hi! bi'irinning of a movement which is expected to involve l-'."i.00(l men in May.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2913, 17 March 1891, Page 2
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145LABOUR TROUBLES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2913, 17 March 1891, Page 2
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