WORK AND WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1753, 19 May 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

BIG STRIKE FEARED. A PENDING BALLOT. Uj Telegraph—Press Association— OopyrJcbl (Rec. May 18, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 17. Tho unions participating in tho ballot among tho. shipyard workers represent 110,600 skilled workers, but if, as several largo employers fear, tho ballot leads to a strike in June, half a million workers will bo' affected. There have been threo --successive advances in wages of fivo per centum since 1910. . [A message from London, wider date May 2, stated that the unrest among the shipyard workers was growing. Members of various unions federated ,in the districts had been circularised, and asked to decide whether they would accept tno masters' proposal to adjourn the request for increAsed wages within three months, jr notify .that they would strike unless yieir demands were conceded.] ' RIOT IN HALIFAX. ' .STREET CAI'S WRECKED. " V ; '(Rec. May 17, 6.5 p.m.) ' Ottawa, May 17. A mob at Halifax surrounded the street cars, wrecked a'number of them, and atitacked, the strike-breakers. ■ Tho police suppressed the disorders, during which many people were injured. •

SOUTH WALES MINERS,

■NON-UNIONISTS JOIN FEDERATION. London, May 16.' The non-unionists' resistance to tho South Wales Miners' Federation campaign has collapsed. Fifty thousand nonunionists have joined the federation during the past fortnight. This is mainly owing to the relaxation of the entrance 'feo rules,,arid the strikers' well-organised demonstrations. • . ' . . [Twenty thousand of the South Welsh miners recently struck because of the employment of non-unionists.] THE MINMI MEN. ' • BXP.ULSION ENDORSED. , ' r Sydney, May 17. The Northern Miners' Delegate Board has endorsed the expulsion of the Minmi lodge from the Employees' Federation. The Minmi men are now treated as nonanlonlsts. [The Northern Miners' Delegates Board resolved last month to expel the Minmi X,odge from; the federation because the Minmi miners had entered into an agreement with, the the mine collieries against tho desire of the federation. -"'is a-consequcnco of this decision the Minmi coal output was declared. was not handled by unionist coal. Junipers.]' O WAIHI GRAND JUNCTION. fIFFECT OF SHORTAGE OF LABOUR; London, May 16. At a meeting of tho Waihi Grand Junction Company, Mr. Rothwell presided. *■ The chairman justified tho non-payment of a dividend, and said that, if nothing interrupted tlio working, the company would probably pay an .interim... dividend of a' Shilling a' share. in November next, and a final distribution of a shilling a share, latch But it, was possible, a. shortage of labour would prevent the minimum .output 0f.'350 tons, which was necessary. Mr. Rothwell suggested that the Government of New Zealand should encourage the immigration of miners by assisted passages,. THE UNION .AND THE COMPANY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! . Auckland, May 17. With reference to the oabled report confcevning Faboitr for the Waihi mine, a reportor Vas' informed thafctne company was unablo to secure sufficient men since the strike last year. • Some difficulty had also been experienced owing to tho clause in the agreement between tho Miners Union and tho company. Men employed bad .to ibelong to the union, but the union refused to accept some ot tho men (jclected by the company.