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TRADES AND LABOUR.

STRIKE OF TIMBER. STARD HANDS. SYDNEY, February 11. A number of men employed by tlifl Union Box Company at the Austral Timber Company's works have ceaeed work in sympathy with a strike of carnal hands. The strike is expected^ to become general in the timber trade to-morrow, when 1600 peimanent and casual hands will probably go out. February 12. A general strike of timber j ard hand* took place to-day. Two thousand hands are idle, and about 13 timber vessels are unable to discharge. February 13. The timber yard owners intend to issue writs against the union for alleged bleaches of the Arbitration Court awards. Febiuary 14. The timber strike has disorganised the butter industry, and orders for boxes are being sent to Melbourne, Br sbane, and New Zealand. The situation in connection with the strike i& unchanged. February 17. A mass meeting of timber strikers re j solved to ask the Premier to call Parliament together to amend the Arbitration Act. After a conference between the timbeT Merchants' Association and a deputation of strikers and representatives of othei unions interested, an announcement' was officially made that there vere good prospects of an immediate settlement of th« trouble at a further conference to-morrow. It is understood that the proposal is to submit the trouble to arbitration, each side appointing a representative, with an umpire. shipbuild~erV dispute. LONDON. February 15. The north-east shipbuilding lockout lias been, postponed for a week in the hope of a settlement being effected. A cablegram from London on January 22 stated that hundreds of members of ihe federated shipbuilding trades in the .lorl'ieast of England had struck against an 'mmediate Is per week reduction in t'ma rates, with a further reduction in Jl? ,\'!^ A fortnight ago the masters of the northeast shipyards notified a lock-out of 0.00(1 men on the 15th inst. uife^s the '-lnpw rights and joiners' dispute was settled. NEWCASTLE MINING TROUBLES. SYDNEY, February 11. The Newcastle coal tribunal is still hung up, owing to a dispute at the Neath col*lien-, which prevented the court getting to business. It is hoped it w ill be ablo to do so to-day The Newcastle mines were working today. February 12. The wheelers in the Dudley colliery have again ceased work. The mineis refused to do the wheeling themselves. It is likely that the contempt to whic."* the court has been subjected by a section of the employees will cause the president to reconsider his position. February 17. All the Newcastle collieries are workingi to-day ; consequently the Special Court has resumed its sittings.

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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 27

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TRADES AND LABOUR. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 27

TRADES AND LABOUR. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 27

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