Second Edition WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 7 April 1913, Page 6

Second Edition WORK AND WAGES.

BLAST FURNACEMEN’S WAGES [Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association,] (Received 9.50 a.m.) London, April 6. Blast furnacemen’s wages on tees (abort pieces of connecting pipfes) havebeen raised 4J per cent. BARLING HARBOR STRIKE. ROYAL COMMISSIONER APPOINTED. Sydney, April 7. Tbe Government’s offer of a Royal Comiliisi'Soner to inquire into the railway strike includes the immediate resumption of work. Mr Carmichael is hopeful that the men’s meeting today will accept the conditions. Judge Paddington, who recently resigned a JTigh Court Judgeship, will be the commissioner. The strikers decided to permit the milk supplies to pass through Darling Harbor, as otherwise it would interfere with the requirements of children and invalids. Now that the shunters and the other guards are out, practically the whole of the g’hods traffic in the State is held up. The parcels men, in the central railway station, signed bff last night, and did not start this morning.

'Timber yards and other industries ore beginning to feel the nip, and ar« shortening hands.

the colliery trouble. Northern miners are considering th® proprietors’ proposals, and probably a decision will be come to today, but the outlook is uncertain The South Coast miners’ strike is entering the fourth’ week, and apparently ia no nearer settlement. Trade is paralysed,; many miners have left or are leaving the district. The Broken Hill Unions refused the Tramway Company’s offer to run a provision train from Cockburn. •i SLAUGHTERMEN’S DISPUTE, Wellington, April 7. The dispute between the Wellington Slaughtermen’s Union and the i Meat 1 Companies has been referred to ■ the Arbitration Court. When part ties met before the Conciliation Coun- : cil to-day, Mr Prylbr, on behalf of the Companies,! said ho was instructed to say that the Companies were not prepared to discuss the situation with the old union in any shape or form. I: , ‘ Lodal c’rfmpanies had ontoi-ecU into agreements with the other Unions, and there was,nothing to bo gained by discussing the matter., If the Union was not prepared to accept a new agreement,- there was nothing to do but to go to the Court. The Conciliation Commission accordingly hac ao alternative but to commit the dispute to Court.