WORK AND WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1514, 9 August 1912, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

f STRIKE AT HONOLULU. MASTERS AND MATES GO OUT. By TelceraDli—Press Association—Copyright Honolulu, August 7. Fifty masters and unites on the InterIsland Steamship Company's boats have struck for higher pay uiui a holiday on .Sunday. The strike has (.haltered the schedule, and is seriously hampering communicaliuus. A fleet of fifteen vessels is tied up, AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPHISTS. Sydney, August 8. The telegraph operators in. the. Commonwealth have decided, by. a majority of twenty to one, on extreme notion unless their grievances nre redressed. CHICAGO RAILWAY STRIKE. Chicago, August 7. There is small liope of reaching an amicable agreement with the employees on the railway. The number of men affected is 10,000. DISMISSAL OP NON-UNIONIST. Melbourne, August 8. The Full Court has reversed a. decision whereby the secretary of the Wntersido 'Workers' Federation was ordered to pay ill 16s. 9d. damages for having, it was alleged, maliciously procured the dismissal of a non-unionist from his employment ns a winchraan. WHARF LABOURERS FINED. (Rec. August 8, 9.50 p.m.) Sydnoy, August 8. The reserved judgment in the case against the North Coast Steam Navigation Company's wharf labourers was delivered to-day. Two of the men woro fined £5, and sixty-five others £2 each. During the hearing of (lie case on Jiilv 29 counsel stated that tho bulk of the men admitted that they had broken the award by striking against the employment of sailors in unloading, but pleaded for mitigation of the penalty on the i ground that tho employers had also broken their agreement.