WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 8 January 1913, Page 8

WORK AND WAGES.

A GIGANTIC ( OMBINE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, January 7. Against the employment of nonrhursts, Jive thousand miners have struck at Maostaeg and a thousand in Lanarkshire. Representatives of the Trade Union Congress and Co-operative Union Labour Party will meet early in February to consider the feasibility of an alliance embracing the whole of the labour movement of the United Kingdom. The. membership of such a combine would be four million. The proposals include the investment of trade union funds in a co-operative movement and co-operation in the financial assistance of unions during a strike. The Northumberland miners will bold a ballot at the end of February whether to strike with a view to ending the three-shift system, on the ground that it is a menace to home life in colliery villages. SLAUGHTERMEN’S DISPUTE. Wellington, January 8. The men employed on the meat works at Petone and Ngahuranga, Have given the Company's fourteen days’ notice of their intention to cease work. The men claim an r - crease of os per 100 for sheep and 6d per head for cattle. The Companys refuse the latter demand, but offei to make the increase in the price lor sheep, which the men do not consider sufficient. Farmers are willing to man the boards with their sons in case of trouble. MINERS’ SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE (Received 8 a.m.) London, January 7. The coal conciliation award unanimously gives 400,000 colliers an annual increase, amounting to one million.