LABOUR TROUBLES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1329, 5 January 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

_4 northumberland miners, minim~um~wage. By Association-Copyright (Rec. January ■}, 0.20 p.m.) London, January i. Mr. T. Burko ha.s circularised the Northumberland .Miners' Association, slating that ton many big and complex questions are being simultaneously raised. First (here was the raising of tho minimum wage for hewers, then Uio payment of average wages, for work in abnormal places, ami finally the enforcement, of a minimum wage for all grades. Mr. Wilson, secretary of the Durham Association, is similarly autiiurhetic to Ihe agitation for ;i. minimum vage, on tho ground that it is impracticable from h business standpoint. STRIKE OF RASBIT TRAPPERS. THE TROUBLE SPREADING. (Rec. January 5, 0.15 a.m.) Sydney, January 4. A strike of rabbit trappers has occurred at Murrumburra, owing to tho freezing works lowering the price. The trouble is spreading to other districts. The president of tho Trappers' Union says that it may involve six thousand men. The trappers have only recently been organised.

MELBOURNE WHARF LABOURERS

MOKE PAY WANTED. (Rec. January i, 9.20 p.m.) Melbourne, January i. Shipping was held up to-day while the wharf labourers met to discuss the question of an increase in pay from Is. 3d. to Is. sd. per hour. The meeting was oxfremely noisy. Delegates ware appointed to confer with representatives of the Steamship Owners' Federation on Monday. Tho men will resume work to-morrow. THE LITHGOW STRIKES. Sydney, January i. The Lithgow strikers have decided to ask tho Federal Government to suspend the iron bonus until pig-iron is produced by registered union labour only. "SYMPATHETIC STOPPAGE." London, January 3. Blackburn unionists have nsksd the Federation of Trades Unions to considor the quostion of a sympathetic stoppage of work. BELGIAN MINERS' STRIKE. Brussels, January 3. Twenty-fire thousands miners at Bcrinago, in the province of Hainaut, have struck. (Rec. January i, 9.20 p.m.) Brussels, January 4. The Boringa strike was due to tho mastors paying wages fortnightly instead of weekly, in order to facilitate tho stoppage of contributions for old age pensions.