Tabular statement of the state of trade and the labor market.

Chichester. Crewe......

Plumbers agitating for reduction of hours
and advance of wages, but no action
taken on either side. Painters made a
demand for 1d. an hour, and have been
locked out in consequence for nearly a
fortnight.

Masons have been thirty weeks on strike
for 1d. an hour and reduction of 24 hours
in time, but are now applying for work;
carpenters and joiners also demand 1d.
an hour.

Plasterers have given notice of demand
for 1d. an hour, to commence 22d April.
Painters demand advance of 1d. per hour
from 1st April, 1878.

Masons 28. per week and 3 hours less time,
from 1st May, 1878; joiners 28. per week
and 4 hours less time, from 1st May,
1878; plasterers and slaters, 1d. an hour
from 1st April, 1878.

Notice of 1d. per hour advance from brick-
layers, and also to leave 12 instead of
12.30 Saturdays, and also walking time at
3 miles an hour for jobs more than 1 mile
from Wellington station, instead of 1
miles as now; also demand from plaster-
ers of d. per hour, to commence 1st
April.

Plasterers demand 1d. per hour from 25th April, but are not at all likely to succeed in their demand.

Newport..