INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10, 9 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

COLLIERS’ WAGES. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.^ London, May 8. St. Aldwyn’s casting vote on the South Board decided that colliery laborers should be paid 4s 2d to 4s 9d daily, representing an advance of threepence. The men are so dissatisfied at not securing 5s that they have suspended negotiations and called a conference of the Wales Miners’ Federation for Saturday. St. Aldwyn’ivote implies that the Conciliation Board agreement continues to control "he Sou th Wales coal trade. A circular to members of the Northumberland Minors’ Association states that during two and a quarter years the expenditure has been £150,000 above the income. It is impossible to continue to pay the present benefit rates. * • ANOTHER DEADLOCK. • London, May 8. The Peninsular and Oriental Company’s dispute is centred on the Mooltan’s crow of 326 ,of whom 144 are Europeans, and only ten are ablebodied seamen. The union demanded that forty white seamen be carried. The newspapers state that a hundred of the crew declined-to -sign on. The Mooltan’s officers state that the crew held a ’meeting in the saloon, and, considering the union’s instructions unreasonable and hasty, declined to leave the ship. The London District Transport Workers’ Federation, representing a hundred thousand men, has resolved to support the strikers and send a deputation to the company. The Orient line lias already agreed to carry two efficient white seamen to each lifeboat. The Morning Post states that ten seamen are insufficient, and if the Peninsular Company is unwilling tc raise the complement it- ought to be forced to do so by law, THE GREEN ISLAND DISPUTE. Dunedin, May 8. There has boon practically no al teration in the position in regard to the Green Island coal mining dispute. Mr P. Webb, president of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, arrived in Dunedin to-day, and proceeded to Fairfield with Mr Kidd, secretary to the Otago Coal Minors’ Union. A very large meeting of miners was held -to-night, but discussion was mostly confined to tho aim and objects of the Federa,tiqn| W Labour. “ The adjourqed-meeting of the Green Island coal pit--owners was held this afternoon, when Messrs Christie Bros, stated that, I ‘as' Hie maintenance stab had gone, out with the rest of the men, existing fires in the mine had got out of hand, necessitating the sealing np of the mine on Monday, whicl; means that’the present section Will Inclosed for months at least. In tin j meantime, another section of the fiei-.il will be opqued up, and forced shift it is hoped in a very short time to have placed for a number of tinmen.