WORK AND WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1447, 23 May 1912, Page 7

WORK AND WAGES.

CAUSE OF LABOUR UNREST. GOSPEL OF CLASS HATRED. REMEDY LIES IN FISCAL REFORM. Bj Telesraph-Prcss Assoeiation-CopyriEUt. (Hoc. May 22. 11.50 p.m.) London, .May 22. Mr. Bonar Law (Leader of the Oppusition). i» ft. speech at Glasgow, attributed tho labour unrest partly to the pjiwclii'.s defending tho 1909 Budget; tli« keynote of theso was the gospel of class hatred, fed by hopes of n new Jerusalem, which had not arrived.

Co-partnership was a promising solution, but tho only hope of a fairer distribution of wealth without drying up tho source of wealth was to raise tho level of wages by means of fiscal reform and eolo-' uial preference. AMEND THE WAGES ACT. (Rec. May 22, 11.50 p.m.) London, May 22. Tho Labour party intend to bring pressure on the Government to promote a Bill to amend the Wages Act, definitely enacting ss. and 2s. as the minima. TRANSPORT WORKERS' DISPUTE. (Rec. May 22, 11.50 p.m.) London, May 22. In tho House of Commons, replying to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of tho Board of Trade, announced that the Government was appointing a Court to inquire into tho cir'cumstancos of the dispute between the transport workers and the Port of London Authorities. .• DOCK LABOURERS RESUME WORK. (Rec. May 23, 1.10 a.m.) Melbourne, May 22, The dock labourers have resumed work pending negotiations for a settlement of their dispute.

• MINERS' CONFERENCE. • (Rec. -May 22, 10.20 p.m.) London, May 22. A National Conference of the Miners'Federation has opened in London (o consider the minimum wage fixed by the District Boards. STRIKE AT MILLWALL DOCK. London, May 21. The masters deny that they locked out the lightermen at the Millwail docks. The men were withdrawn by the unioTl, which feared one man (a non-unionist). I The strike will involve 100,000 shoremen. Already 10,000 lightermen are idle. Three thousand, including the New Zealand Shipping Company's labourers, at tho Victoria docks have struck. DELIVERY OF APPLES AFFECTED. London, May 21. Tho strike is seriously affecting the delivery of apples, necessitating the fruit being railed and cartel. If the carters strike, there will be a deadlock. ONE-DAY STRIKE ABANDONED. Sydney, May 22. The proposed twenty-four hours' strike, as a protest against the detention of tho Lithgow strike prisoners, is not popular among the unions, and will probably be abandoned. The Government will consider the prisoners' case next week. .