LABOUR DISPUTE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 September 1910, Page 3

LABOUR DISPUTE.

HOFLKRMAKRRS' WANT OF

DISCI PL INK.

[UT KI.KCTRTC TEIiEGUAPH-COPTnTOnT..] [I'KH I'KEfIS- ASSnCUTION.]

LONDON. September 4. Tlip livctters of vessels built on the rsiipnvomi system contended that Uinjjcitudinal framing meant harder work and the usual ■piecework scales yielded an insufficient

waice. Pending the preparation of permanent conditions the Employers' Federation of Boilermakers , Executive signed, a provisional agreement last week.

The rivetters this week, repudiated it and the Executive's efforts to induce the men to iiesume work are unavailing. The trades union sp;TPtiir}es afc \Yearsid ; e criiti<J:lse (he hoilerinakers' want of discipline

There have been sixty sectional disputes within the federated area siiK.-e the national agreement of last year, including fifteen in August.

rxroxisTS and nox-union-ists COMBINE. SRIUOUS OUTLOOK. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, September I. Mr Havelock \\ ilson informed an intorvieuer that meetings at' South Shields had arranged that all ports in Great Britain, on the Continent, and in Australia should ask the men if they are prepared to quit their ships at a given signal. The meeting included Unionists and non-Cniojiists.