The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-10 00:00:00

TRADE DISPUTES,

The lock-out of plasterers and masons at Leeds may 11
said to be near its end, as the numbers out of employa'°°-
diminish every day ; but a report of the present state of the
strikes and lock-outs in various towns, shows that there $1:o
an strike at Birmingham, 25 ; Cheltenham, 2; LiverP°°:l"
;
14 ; Manchester, Salford, and Hulme, 334 ; Sunderland,
total, 381. Locked out :—Blythe Marsh (Staffordshire), 8;
Bolton, 79 ; Bradford, 118 ; Coventry, 7 ; Leeds, 112 ; LYIT
6; Sheffield, 101; St. Helen's, 18; Swinnerton (Staff°r"'
shire), 21 ; Wakefield, 10 ; total, 480. Aggregate number 0°
strike and locked out, 861. The report shows that 01:
number is very small as compared with the thousands scb°,.s-a
notices are still pending. The position of affairs at t'"
South Yorkshire collieries, where the men are now out, ill':
not changed during the week, whilst the committal of
number of them for assaults, &c., has had a most salutar,
effect. At Denaby Main, where it has been usual for tlie„,
old hands to go close to the colliery, and escort thoo
who had been at work to their homes with whistles, drii°3l
flags, and hooting, there is now great quietness, a°
the men are able to go to and fro withcut molesiati°,l3;
A dispute has arisen between the weavers employed
Messrs, Berry and Turner, Folly Hall, Huddersfield, °Pr,
their employers, and it has resulted in the parties aPPett
lug before the magistrates. The men were summoned
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breach of contract, and the magistrates held that the tlei
should give fourteen days' notice, and granted a caoe
the opinion of the superior court on the point in dispute
At each of the Over Darwen Mills, where a strike t°°v,
place on Thursday, deputies from the operatives had ipteoo
views with their employers. They urged that a redueti-o
would be ruinous to them, as they had lately suffer" tore
much from bad material. With two exceptions, the raasiwr
agreed to defer the reduction, and promised that a bev.„6
material should be supplied. Ono master refused to posll3°t
the reduction, and a number of the men remain on strike. "'"0
another milrithe operatives have resumed work, but 14'lls
given 14 days' notice. The masons who have for some
past been engaged upon several large buildings in liirkol e 9
and neighbourhood have left off working. The rate a
of late has been old per hour; the demand, short of wil,.l„ei,
nothing will satisfy the workmen, is now Gd. per hour. 'ls
ployers have refused to accede to this demand ; hole°l.
strike. The lock-out of the masons at Cried has ternic,
nated much sooner than was anticipated. It scents
that
cording to the union rules the men acted irregularly
gard to the nine-hour movement, which, together with
determination of the masters to resist the demand, 10°°11,,,
the dispute to a close. All the journeymen tesutned '4O
on Thursday on the old terms, namely, tcu hours a daY•

The last rail completing tin junction of the ilv°
s2ctiors of the Paeifie Railway was formally laid to• day.
It is stated that Murphy, wounded at Perry, Well:
tifies Barker as having fired the shot that killed Craig• 138 r

ker has been released on lail.
It is rumoured in the City that a clerk I/
one of our most extensive banking firms, WO !All
th e confidence of his employers, has absconded within t"i
Jast few days, having secured booty to an extent not 9,4
divulged, but which cannot be expressed in fewer than
fIY
figtueS.