THE LABOUR UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 7

THE LABOUR UNREST.

■ ♦— : NEW ASSOCIATION FORMED, By Telograph—Prow Association—Obpyrinht . Paris,' September 22. V The International Association of Labour Conference has closed. An international association, on which Australia will bo represented, has been formed. Its objects are the co-ordina-tion of efforts to combat- unemployment, to .organise, a permanent international office, to hold periodical meetings for the classification of statistics, to publish a journal in each and' to form allied national associations. . ' THE BOILERMAKERS' DISPUTE. MEN'S PROPOSALS REJECTED. ■ London, September' 22. At the conference at Edinburgh with respect to. the dispute between ' the boilermakers and employers in the shipbuilding' trade, the iflasters rejected'the men's proposals. VV' Negotiations are being continued with of a. delegation from the joint trades. V THE MASTERS' PROPOSALS. (Rec. Sept. 23, 10.35 p.m.) London, September 23. : Tho "Daily Mail"-'says;the masters proposed that tho Boilermakers' Society should fine strikers £3 for ai'fi'rst: offence and £5 for a .second; >- If tho men did not pay the fines-the society: was to do so. Tho employers undertook to ..refund the amount iii the latter caso at tho end of six' months if the fines were, still unpaid by tho inen, as they did not desire to cripple- tho society. .' ', ■ Tho masters also promised not to em-, ploy any expelled men. A STRIKE ENDEDLondon, September 22. j. ;' The fifteen hundred employees of the Palmer's j Shipbuilding; and Iron Company, Limited,: Jarrow, NewcastlerimTyne, who' struck against the ; introduo : .tion of brass checks and; time-cards, instead of time boards, -have resumed work. : : V MONTREAL PLUMBERS OUT. y ~ Ottawa, September 22. The plumbers aro on striko at Mon- 1 treal. Tho masters refuse to accede to their ' demands. 1 ' THE SYDNEY SLAUGHTERMEN. ,;' Sydney, September 23. The president of the Slaughtermen's; Union states that' many, butchering firms would kill, but that the carcass butchers who leased tho abattoirs; will not allow them to do so.' • -■ HUCE LOCK-OUT THREATENED. GERMAN SHIPBUILDING TROUBLE ' (Rec. Sept. 23, 9.30 p.m.) Berlin, September 23. '' The; league of employers in the metal industry has' decided to support the shipbuilders by locking out sixty per' centum of tho. workers on October S, linless : the shipbuilding dispute is . settled. ; It is, stated that 420,000 men will be affected. , '. '.