WORK AND WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 932, 27 September 1910, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

'..''V— THE UNREST IN EUROPE. . A GREAT FEDERATION.'... By Telegraph—Prcss'Aesbciatiori—Copyrlsht London; September-'25. ; The transport workers, at a conference held at the instance of the dockers, decided •to federate, with a view to the ultimate amalgamation of 200,000 workers; affected, inoluding cabmen, seamen, dockers, stevedores, engine-drivers, and watermen. CABDWORKEHS' DISPUTE. ,- London, September 25. ; Tho card-room delegates have agreed to onbmit to arbitration , tho . matter in' dispute botween the workers and employers, conditionally on'the Fern Mill being not reopened meanwhile, ' also that . the instructions to the grinders at the Rutland Mill shall be, withdrawn; and that a joint meeting of delegates representing masters and workers shall be held. The Lancashire cotton workers' dispute' arose in consequence of the discharge of an operative from the Fern Mill at Oldham,-. The man' had refused to do certain technical work connected with a machine, contending that the. task was not- mentioned in the. list undor the card-room amalgamation rules. EIGHT-HOURS' DAT SOUGHT. London, Soptember- 25.' The eriginemen at.the Soottish collioriea have given notice that; they will termin? ate their engagements at the end of a fortnight in order to secure 'an eighthours''day. ■ ■■-. V THE GERMAN STRIKE. London, September-25. • Two hundred sailors-and firemen; have left London to tako the place of strikers in Germany. ,: : ~ ; ■ :■ A LONG. STRUGGLE EXPECTED. B.oth sides in' the' Germa n; shipbuilding, disputa are well equipped for a long struggle. Writing on . August .15,' 'the "Daily Mail" said:.:Thoj trade union of .■ the German metal workers' is. . said..- to possess funds amounting-to .£s"oo,oo(),;rttnd; the employers' : organisations are even more powerful. The, demands of the 6trikers.;ire high.y It. is:.'said. that .the ,10. per 6ent inorease in. wages,- in conjunction; with the'decrease :in . the hours of labour/ and the 30 per. cent increase, in . the payment of piecework: which' they ask, would, entail an increase :in. the: wages' bill. of many dockyard proprietors .of 50 per cent. ;Jt is the'. opinion. 'of circles in Hamburg that the struggle will be a long one, and-the issucf 'probably unfavourable to .the workmen. -,v -- i " THE SLAUGHTERING TROUBLE. . t , : . ' Melbourna, September 28., ' The Victorian employers,'slaughtering for. export have -come,, to. " a;, provisional" agreement to pay the men's demands? '■ F The New Souths, Wales, employers are' awaiting., .tho , deoision ;of the,' Board. . ■" •