LABOUR.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16721, 2 January 1920, Page 7

LABOUR.

♦ BRITISH TRANSFORT WORKERS. 1 **—Prre* -V or.—Ccp Trri-lit.} (A*a«tr»!:in ard X./. r: ; b!» Ar«K"ia.tioa.) LONDON, December 31. The Transport Workers' Union has accepted rhe employers' offer of a Court of Inquiry for the investigation of the dorker*' claims for a minimum wp.jc of 10 s per day. Tho ' Court c-orsists of three employers and -liroo employees. with an independent chairman. Jt i~ hoped thus to avert * a strike of LVI.COO workers. IRONTsIOULDERS' STRIKE. PROSPECT of SETTLE}PENT. j LONDON, December 31. i Sir Robert H-.rne. .Minister of ! Labour, also the Parliamentary Cornin;;tci> and the Trade Union Congress, have intervened in the iror.mriulders' strike, in the hope of reaching a settlement. FA message from London on December 2") th said:—Ncmt iations failed to settle the ironmouldors' strike, j which lias now lasted throe months, directly rendering id!" -WOO men ana ' indirectly vannther IPO.CCO, and' in-I iol\ing a loss m .C 2.. (.t\ooo in ! A leading employer declares that 'the 1 engineering trade is now practically at a standstill.] MARINE ENGINEERS' STRIKE. MORE sinrs IDLE. SYDNEY, January 1. The engineers of tho Inga and Ihnmata have joined tho strikers. [Tho Inga and tho Ihnmata, which are owned by Messrs R. S. Lamb and Co., Ltd., of Sydney, are employed in the coal and timber trado between New South Wales and New* Zealand.] "BLACK" BEER. SYDNEY, Jannary 1. A meeting of brewery employees declared beer "black."