LABOUR DISPUTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1086, 27 March 1911, Page 5

LABOUR DISPUTES.

TROUBLE IN ALBERTAA Bid STRiKE IMMINENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrient (Eec. March 2G, 5.5 p.m.) Ottawa, March 25. Mine owners and employees have conferred at Calgary, in Alberta, regardins wages and the recognition of unions, but no decision was readied. The biggest strike in tho history of Alberta is said to be imminent. STRIKERS , FINED. BEMARKS' BY JUDGE HEYDON. Sydney, March 25. Judge Heydon, of the Industrial, Court in imposing fines on Carcoar strikers, saic ho hated that his jurisdiction requirec the imposing of penalties on men who except for theso breaches of the indus trial law, were thoroughly decent and re Bpectablc. Ho was suro if the union; would only formulate among themselvei a resolution that there should be n( strikes, their members, however dissatis fied, would be restrained by the unions which were really tho responsible bodie: for the breaches. The Industrial Court fined tho Lith gow Ironworks' strikers in sums rangini from ono to three guineas, the penalty foi default being fixed at from ono to foui weeks' imprisonment. STRIKE PAY. Melbourne, March 25. Strike pay totalling JEI3OO has beci paid to tho Harvester Works' strikers Married men are to receive thirty shil lings a week, and single men a pound.