WORK AND WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 6 May 1912, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

NAVV WANTS MORI] FAY. AN ADVANCE OP 20 I'KIl CENT, lly Telegraph—Praia AdannliiUon-OopßriKkl (lien. M«y n, fi.n p.m.) London, Miay 4. Tim London "Dnily I'liruiiiclc'"' stales I hut 11m innii (if Ihn low deck in the Nnvy nro ii.skiiiK I'm , »» iill-rmmd Increase of pay i)l' -0 per rent. STRIKE fll' , TAILORS. London, Mny .'I. Fifteen thousand tailors are striking, including machinists mid pressors. I'il'ly tliniisiind men urn! tvmn«n will bo thrown idlo in l.iuiiloii to-morrow as tho result of tho strike. PICKETKRS FINED. London, Mny 3. Fifteen picketera have beea fined £2 each on charges of intimidation in connection with tho dispute at tho motor works at Lotchworth. COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE. London, May 3. "The Times" states that tho Government has appointed a Cabinet committee to investigate tho cause of tho industrial unrest in England. AMERICAN RAILWAYS. New York, May 3. The Locomotire Firemen's Union is now demanding nn increase of wages on a scale commensurate with that secured by the engineers. Railroad managers declare that the men's demands mean an additional increase of five million sterling to the wages bill. ANTHRACITE COAL DISPUTE. New York, May 3. A tentative agreement providing a basis of settlement in tho anthracite coal dispute has been rejected, the mine workers refusing to accept tho proposals. A hundred and seventy 'thousand men are still idle.