LABOUR TROUBLES.
Nkw York, March 29
The United Mine Workers unanimously rejected the Ohio, Indiana, and West Pennsylvanian Mine owners’ terms, and a great strike is feared.
Sydney, Marcn 29. The New South Wales Trades’ Union Congress has opened. A resolution was passed, protesting against Judge Hey don placing the Free Labourers’ Union on the Wharf Labourers’ Wages Board. Newcastle, March 29. The lingiue Drivers' Wages Board has fixed a rate of pay raugiug from 13^d to per hour, mechanics from 13M to i6d per hour. Melbourne, March 29.
Owing to a dispute with timber stackers there is a likelihood, if the trouble is not promptly adjusted, that the Timber Merchants’ Association will close the yards, causing a lockout disastrous to the building trade, and throwing thousands idle.
New York, March 29
The Union of Trainmen aud Conductors on the Lake Shore, Michigan, Southern Railway are taking a ballot owing to the failure of negotiations to settle the outstanding dispute. Twenty thousand employees are affected.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 820, 31 March 1910, Page 3
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165LABOUR TROUBLES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 820, 31 March 1910, Page 3
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