WORK AND WAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2063, 25 April 1907, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

AN AFTERMATH OF AVAR. LONDON, Artol 23 Eight thousand Government employees at AVoolwicli arse i ll marched to within a mile of Parliament Hm’te amid cordial and sympathetic cheers, and sent a deputation to the Government, urging reasons against the continuance of their discharge Iho Premier expressed sympathy with the workers in what the Government rnsidered to he a painful necessity. Mr Haldane concurred, explaining the necessity of reducing the AVoolwicli expenditure below the inflation of the former war figures. The minimum was now approaching. Lord Tweednioutli promised all the help the Admiralty could give. The deputation returned despondent. TIN-MINERS’ STRIKE.

HOBART, April 24,

A lew men resumed work at the Zeohau smelter. Inspector Milnes has wired the Minister that work is likely to be resumed in a few days. SYDNEY COAL LUMPERS. SYDNEY, April 23.

As a result of alleged interference with men applying to the employers bureau, the strikers were compelled to remove from the immediate vicinity, but when beyond the immediate influence of the police, the applicants were subjected to the usual attention by pickets, and taunting and jeering by a crowd of pickets cruising ill the vicinity of vessels coaling in the harbor.

The general manager of the North German Lloyd Company states that the Company will be forced to get coal from other sources while the present uncertainty of labor conditions lasts. During the past fortnight they had bought 2000 tons outside Sydney, and their freight and Island steamers will coal there. If the strike extended to the miners the Comjiaiiy would be able to procure sufficient coal at Colombo or in the East.

The employers express themselves satisfied with the number of men applying at' .the bureau. On the other hand the strikers assert that very few are applying. Trouble is threatened between the Newcastle stevedores and the Co.il Trimmers’ Union, owing to delay incoaling a vessel. The stevedores nssert that there was plenty of um.)n labor available to do the tri ninini. but the Union refused to enlarge its membership sufficiently to cops with the increased trade. SYDNEY, April 24. The workers at the Mount Koira colliery have ceased work as a result of sympathy with the coal lumpers’ strike.