Labour Troubles,

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 March 1910, Page 4

Labour Troubles,

FREE LABOURERS' RIGHTS. |_UY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH--COPYRIGHT.] | PEH PRESS ABBOOI vc*ON .1 SYDNEY, March 29. The New South Wales Trades Union Congress has opened. A resolution was passed protesting against Judge Heydon placing the Kree Labourers' Union on the wharf labourers' Wages Board. Tim Newcastle engine-drivers' Wages Hoard has fixed rates of pay ranging from Uijd to l(>id an liour, mechanics' wages from 13-Jd to Kid. an hour. GREAT STRIKE FEARED. NEW YORK, March 29. The United Mine Workers have unaiiiimously rejected the terms offered by the mine-owners of Ohio, Indiana,' and West Pennsylvania. It is feared that a great strike will ensue. LOCK-OUT THREATENED. MELBOURNE, March 29. Owing to a dispute with the timber stackers, there is a likelihood if the trouble is not promptly adjusted, that the Timber Merchants' Association will close their yards, causing a lock-out that would be disastrous to the building trade, throwing thousands idle. ENGLISH COLLIERY ON FIRE. (Received This Day, fl.lo a.m.) LONDON, March 29. The Northumberland colliery dispute has resulted in a fire gaining hold of the Radcliffe colliery owing to the neglect of the fire barriers. The owners are flooding the mine. Thousands of hands have been thrown out of work.