LABOUR.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16856, 9 June 1920, Page 7

LABOUR.

4 LONDON DOCKERS' PROBLEM. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright./ j (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) LONDON, June 7. A contributor to the Labour Press j states that, as a sequel to the dockers' j award, an army of youthful, unskilled j men, lured by the high pay, are quitting tho land, the workshops, and tho j factories, for the docks, throwing thou- I ! sands of experienced, elderly dockers ! I out of work. i The latter bitterlv complain that the 1 fruits of their hard-foueht battles for | trade union solidarity and better condi- j tions aro being filched by the youthful | invaders. | [In March the Dockers' Court of Inquivv. by a majority report, awarded the dockers a universal minimum waee of 16s per day, and provided for tho introduction of a system of registration and maintenance grants to counteract the evils of casual employment. One of tho first fruits of the decision was the increasing, by the Port of London Authority, of the dock charges by 65 1 per cent., making the total increases j ' of> per cent, over the pre-war rates. ! ; The employers estimated that the i granting of 16s ner day to the dockers : would cost £10,000,000 a year.] WELSH MINERS' STRIKE. (Hauler's Telegrams.) LONDON, June 7. Fifteen thousand miners of Rhymney Valley struck in sympathy with 2000 in the Bargoed colliery, who struck as I a protest against the practice of knock- ! ing out timber on conveyor faces in j tho daytime, instead of at night time.

STOVEMAKERS' DISPUTE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, June 8. The stovemakers employed by F. Matters and Co., Ltd., are returning to work, pending tho result of a roundtable conference between the employers and the employees. TA message received last week stated: —Five hundred stovemakers have been dismissed by F. Mattors and Co., Ltd., in consequence of friction between the employers and the employees, tho latter frequently holding stop-work meetings, with a view to enforcing their demands. The foreman, irritated by the repeated interruptions to ' work, thereupon issued the dismissal notices.]