WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 28 April 1913, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

THE BELGIUM STRIKE.' [By Euectkio [United Press Association.] * ‘ • T ' ; ‘' r r ’"' tejstj ygaiijist tW rcspmptiyy ( of I work, on the ground; 'that' thfey < ard fpb’fjitive the result, w6yjflj Numerous' miners | ■ tojkjog \ age oP : the' to' ed wages.' ‘ “ 1 “ i ' vr '" MINERS’ STRIKE SETTLED. ~ S»S - • S ' 'Sydney, t Xpil, 26. 1 Uhe Southern miners’ representatives hayp .Accepted the Government's proposals, and the, strike is oyern,,,The mines will probably be in full swing before the end of the week. | ■ DUNEDIN PLASTERERS. fa 1 ■ : ' ’■ i- IS' ; Dunedin, April 27. , * It is reported that an extraordinary position has been set up in the local plasterers trade, and that a deadlock is threatened. A conference of the Dunedin Master Builders’ Association and Master Plasterers was held on Friday to consider the question of plasterers’ wages. It was reported that quite recently an advertisement was published in the local newspapers that plasterers were available at 14s per day. Tho advertisement, it is said, was signed by the secretary of the Plasterers’ Employees' Union. The plasterers’ award, however, defines the wages of journeymen at 12s per day. The notice was interpreted as being tantamount to a demand for an increase of wages,without adopting the usual procedure. In the opinion of several speakers the present position amounts to a strike, as several employees are reported to have left their jobs, refusing to work for the award rate. The meeting also deemed it extraordinary that such action should have happened, seeing that the award is of recent date, and that the present condition of the trade did not, in the opinion of the conference, warrant such action on behalf of the union.