Trade and Labour

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 24, 12 August 1890, Page 4

Trade and Labour

i \ PEB'TOITED CRESS ASSOCIATION. | _ \ | CHfiiaTciiDECH, August 9 The" following 1 are' ttie "issues sub emitted by. the Maritime Council to be upon in the dispute witt Messrs' Whitconibe and Tombs : — 1. .W^ere men, dismissed because oi .'their, Connection with the' Union ? 2. Have the firm kept their word to recognise the Union ? 3. -lHas'their refusal' in the 'past tc 'do so caused the present dispute ? 4. 'Is-'not the employment of girlt at 10s a week in the composing room a process of sweating ? 5. f Are the demands 'of the Typographical Union unreasonable ? |J6. Should not the firm give practical proof- of 'their future recoeuition oJ the Unipn- by, employing Union men at once and working ui.dei the Typograpbical~Union'a"rules~? 7. -'lf jit' can be shown that the employment of females is 'detrimental "to the whole' printing 'trade, should it not be n immediately:Btopped ? Whitecombe and- Tombs' Directors met on Tuesday to r consider the issues^ ' j ~"-J h - • i Oamahtj August 9 It is undersfcooduftiit^at'a meeting -of the-Farmers' Club,- in committee, it was resolveds. thatl a, telegram oi sympathy should^ be^sent to Messrs Whitcocibe Tombs, with an offer of fjnanc£ar assistance, if neces saiy. It was also resolved to send telegrams to.^thef, Eatlway sionejs-arid ) ■the Pjnion Steamship Company ,asking them"* to uphold ih« law in' d regaid to the cariiage oJ Whitcombe and 'Tombs* goods. »-fij/' I L.^Ytoy*-?* AufUHt 10. 1 At a meeting of mil way men resolutions : were r ,( carried protesting against the , dismissal,; of 600 t hands who were employed, _pn the permanent way and the j worker being given to contractors. ',As, the J; dismissal, was likely to lead to peiious^ trouble^ an interview was soughi \v.ith Chief-Com-miß3ioiior v Eddy, jWho ( expluin d thai the arrangement w'.-ia not peimanent, aud as opportunity^ arose the nien would be' re engaged.'