LABOR TROUBLES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 430, 18 March 1890, Page 3

LABOR TROUBLES.

THE GREAT COLLIERY STRIKE. ~ TBOOPB CALLED OUT. London, March 16. The colliery owners not having replied to the offer made by the men, the leaders have ordered the latter to go out on strike. The danger of a strike of 20,000 colliers is causing a great deal of excitement throughout the country. Several of the Lancashire and Stafford colliery owners are willing to agree to the demands of the men. Twenty thousand Fifeshire miners are insisting on an increase of 10 per cent, in wages. Members of the Union are attacking Don-Unionists at Liverpool, and a body of 500 troops has been ordered there to preserve order. Twenty thousand engineers at Newcastle and Stockton-on-Trent have gone out on strike, demanding a cessation of work at mid-day on Saturday. The Antwerp cigar workers have struck for an increase of wages, and the factory proprietors have declined to accede to the request. Great disorder has been occasioned. There are now actually 20,000 colliers on strike. The Miners’ Conference meets on Mon? day to consider the advisability of granting any concessions in the demands made upon the Lancashire And Staffordshire owners. The colliers have not removed their tools, pending the decision of the masters. The Liverpool dock owners are employ* ing discarded metropolitan gas men. A stringent system of picketing has been adopted by the Deckers’ Union. Fearing riots, the Magistrates have closed all bottle and public houses, and have billietted troops in those premises. Twelve thousand Stafford and other collier* have refused to strike.