LABOUR DISPUTES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 14, 11 October 1919, Page 7

LABOUR DISPUTES

AMERICAN ARBITRATION BOARD PROPOSED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Washington, October's. The Employers'. Group' at the Industrial and Labour Conference held a conference .with tho representatives of United States and .Labour, and proposed a i.iree months', truce. Mr. Samuel Gompers proposed that an Arbitration Board be .appointed.'to, settle' the 6teel,strike., The representative of the Public Groups prbposed, a. National Arbitration Board, to -.include ex-Presidente of. the United States. as: members, with the object .',of arbitrating in . all disputesAua.-'N.Z. Cable, Assn. STRIKE OF LONGSHOREMEN. ■ (Rec. October 10, 9.5 p.m.) New York, October-9. ■It is estimated that the number ~of longshoremen idle is fifty and seventy .thousand. I7W.W. influence is alleged:. • Union officials who counselled, against the strike are unable' to control the. men. The; work of tho port ii sus-pended.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Awn.

EMERGENCY MACHINERY TO PREVENT BIG STRIKES. ~ (Rec. October 10, 7.-10 p.m.) • '. i' London; October 8. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress discussed the report of, the Conciliation Committeo in the recent Strike, and decided to appoint ! a sub-committee to consider the creating of emergency machinery to intervene immediately in order to prevent big strikes. —-Aits.-iv.Z. ■ Cable Assn.

LONDON BUS AND TRAMWAYMEN "; V! AN AWARD MADE. 1 London, Oetobci; 9. 1 An arbitration award lias been'made, securing the busmen and tramwaymen in London and the provinces an increase in thewar bonus ot 4s. a week.—Ans.-N.Z. .Cable Assn. ' ' ' WAR WAGE"DURING STRIKE GRANTED BRITISH WINERS. (Rec. Octobel-10, i 1.20 p.m.) London, October 9. It; is. officially .stated that the miners' 'application for a war wago in lieu" of the unemployment donation during the strike has been granted—Renter. GENERAL Smi"AT BREST . .. Paris, Octobar !>.• . a general strike, the outcome of the metalworkers' dispute, has paralysed, the port, of Brest.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.