LABOUR TROUBLES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1433, 7 May 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

EIGHT HOUR DEMONSTRATION. By-Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rcc. May 7, 0.50 a.m.) Brisbane, May 6. The eight-hour clay procession was a record display. The Tramway Union carried a banner inscribed "Legalised to vrear the badge," and a fignre of Justico with the bandage removed from the eyes. TIME FOR A SIX HOURS' DAY. Brisbane, May 6. Speakers at an Eight Hour Day dinner declared that the time has arrived to seek a six hours' day. THE RIGHT TO STRIKE.' Sydney, May 6. The agreement between the shipping companies and the Wharf Labourers Union, drawn Tip at the conferenco in January, has not been signed by the president of the Wharf Lnboiirers' Union, because it provides for heavy penalties for striking. The president's action has been endorsed by a mass meeting of the men, at which it was stated there was no present intention of striking, but they refused to give up the right bo to do.

AN IMPOSSIBLE PROPOSAL. London, May 5. Mr. Eeir Hardio, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil, speaking at Swansea, proposed that instead of a minimum daily wage there should be a yearly salary, paid whether it made for good or bad workers, idle or not. COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY. London, May 5. Mr. Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), Sir Edward Grey (Foreign Secretary), Mr. Sydney Buxton (President of the Board of Trade), and Mr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer), will constitute the committee to investigate the prevailing industrial unMINERS BACK DOWN. (Rcc. May 6, 9.45 p.m.) London, May 6. Th.3 ■ Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation has decided not to adhere to the demand for a minimum wage of 7s.