WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 96, 30 April 1913, Page 7

WORK AND WAGES.

DOCKERS’ GRIEVANCE. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, April 28. Several thousand deckers at Liverpool and Birkenhead struck on Saturday, demanding full pay up to one o’clock. They intend to strike once a week until the grievance is remedied. THE KARORI’S STOKEHOLD. Wellington, April 29. When the steamer Kkrori was at Lyttelton last week representations

were made to the Union Company by stokehold hands regarding their work, and it was"decided that in future tho vessel should carry six firemen instead of three firemen and two trimmers. 1 TROUBLE AT MOUNT KKIUA. Sydney, April 29. A meeting of lads working as wheelers at Mount Keira decided to ask the whole of the wheelers on the South Coast to take united action for the purpose of securing, a .reduction of wheelers’hours from nine to' eight daily. This development, coming just •when the miners were about to 'resume work After the strike has caused disappointment and consternation. Possibly the miners will arrange to wheelers, who are not members of the handle the coal independent of the union. CARTERS’ STRIKE ENDED. The strike of carters has ended. The men have agreed to abide by the result of a test case. At the time of the great strike last March there were 162,000 members of the South AVales Miners’ Federation; since then tho membership has declined by something like 60,000.