LABOUR UNREST

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 287, 30 August 1919, Page 7

LABOUR UNREST

■ NEEDLESS STRIKES I MR. APPLETON'S QUARTERLY REPORT liy Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Eec. August 3*o, 0.50 a.m.) London, August 28. . Mi'. W. A.. Appleton's quarterly report of (he General Federation of ■ Trade Unions says*-that needless strikes have been precipitated. Union funds .have been'dissipated. upon some distinctly political strikes, which must fail or 'end in revolution. The .Government' must protect the country against such strikes, • uiuler which the" people, and not the, capilalists,- suller. The workers, do not yet realise that competitive laws between the nations have now baon resumed,— -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PIECE-WORK SYSTP ADVOCATED " TO STIMULATE ,PjR'OTU) CTION. .'■ (Kec. August 30, 0.50 a.nii) ,London, August. 2S. Mr, Hodge,-M.P.,' in an interview, said ho always advocated payment -by results, Employers in tho inon-lu'id steel trades refused to be. convinced of the advantages of piecework, but in other trailed the opposition' was mostly on the part of the workers. . Clean cut piecc-ratca were the- surest stimulant for tho .increased production' which was so essential. 1 . Mr. W. Brace, M.P., urges the -piecework ' system likeliest to .result in a maximum coal', output.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '• ' . ENGINEERIMDUSTRIES .IMPROVED WORKING CONDITIONS AGREED ON. ' (Rec> August 30, 0.5 a.m.) London, August 28. '' A joint conference between employers, mul workers in tho engineering #ipyard 1 industries, agreed <on improved wbrking. conditions, and, for a..47-hou-r week, the. , men postponing ttiijir claim, for 41 hours. A' joint subcommittee meanwhile is investigating the economic relation' of production to hours.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.