INDUSTRIAL DANGER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1129, 17 May 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL DANGER.

PLEASURE-LOVING AUSTRALIA By TelccraDh-Frcss Association-Copyright Sydney, May 10. Addressing the Chamber of Manufacturers, Mr. IT. I'rattcn declared that a serious industrial danger was growing up among a certain class of trades unionists, who, while seeking high wages, were not prepared to give the same efficient work as before. The principle which set the pace of the slowest and most incompetent workmen as that of the quickest and most efficient was pernicious in the extreme. There were many evidences of pleasure forming too large a part in the life of the nation, and they were likely to make work of play and play of work. EMPLOYERS UP IN ARMS, A JUDGE'S SIMILE. Melbourne, May 10. The employers are up in arms in connection with Mr. Justice Higgins's remarks regarding economic conditions and the employers' powers, when giving an award in the engineers' case in the Arbitration Court. Special objection is taken to Hie judge's simile of the highwayman and- tho traveller, as indicating the attitude of the employer to the workman. It is conteuded that no exercise of despotic power could be shown against the employers, while political trades unions not only possessed but often used despotic powers. It was decided to organise and unite in a public protest of employers against Mr. Justice Higgins's remarks. ' SHEARERS' WAGES. PASTOKALISTS SEEK A SEDUCTION. Sydney, May 10. An application that came before tho Arbitration Court for an award to apply to the shearing industry disclosed the fact'that the pastoralists consider that the previous award fixed too high wages, and they seal: a reduction. They also resist the proposed inclusion of station hands in the award.

By consent, the case was adjourned, pending a conference between the pastoralists and shearers.

HARVESTER STRIKE ENDS.

HEAVY LOSS IX WAGES. Melbourne, May IG. Work in the. agricultural implement •trade generally was resumed to-day. Tt is estimated that the men lest .253,000 in wages during the strike.

(Roe. May 17, 0.30 a.m.) Melbourne, May IG. About a thousand of the implement workers have resumed, and nearly all will be back within a couple of weeks.

WELSH MINING STRUGGLE,

XEGOTIATIOXS FOR SETTLEMENT. (Rcc. May 16, 11 p.m.) London, May IG. A conference between tho South Wales Coal Owners' Association and the Miners' 'Federation has agreed to terms of settlement in Ihe Cambrian dispute to bo" submitted' to tho parties. Tho strike has' lasted six and a half months and has cost two and a quarter millions sterling. JOHANNESBURG TRAM STRIKE. I FULL SERVICE RUNNING. (Rcc- May 10, 11.30 p.m.) Johannesburg, May IG. ~' A number of the tramway strikers have resumed, but one-third ure still on strike. Tho full tramway service, however, is being run. A further discovery of blasting gelatine on tho tram lines has been made, and tho municipality has offered ,£2OO for the conviction of tho miscreants. SHIPWRIGHTS ON STRIKE. London, May 15. Six hundred shipwrights at Southampton have struck for a halfpenny an hour increase in wages.