WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 37, 19 June 1913, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

A TELEPHONE STRIKE

j[Bt Electric Telegraph- -Copyrightj [United Press Associatum . ; Now York, June 18.

Five hundred telephone girls struck at St. Louis, demanding a living wage. The company has imported, strike breakers, but the city is practically telophoneless.

NORTHERN COLLIERY MEN (Received 10.10 a.m.) Sydney, June 19

Mr Justice Heydon, dealing with the application of the Northern Colliery employees for a new arbitration board, declared that the miners were unruly and ungovernable men. His impression at the moment was that if they found something they didn’t like they would stop, work. They yield only to, one thing, and that was force. If they got a board with the employers’ and employees’ representatives and a chairman all elected by the miners, the men would be dissatisfied within a month.

SEAMEN’S DISPUTE. ' [Per- Press Association.] Wanganui, June 19. . The deadlock in connection with the Putiki still continues. East evening ;|:the seamen promised to sign articles, '.but when approached this morning {'only t# nn the % ground* thht» was-hot the port of- signing. off, as provided by the articles. It was understood that the agents have sent to Wellington M for men to replace those who refuse to sign on

Later. H In" Regard to the deadlock on the f|Putlfci,' the men state that the steam.l er has not been to Wellington for three 1 i months, and may not be there h-.for another six months. Notwithistanding this, the , articles the men ■ are asked to sign specify Wellington r- as the terminal port, and the men hold that the Act provides that when the ship has completed a round trip, the terminal port is the last port, reached, which in the present instance is. Wanganui. The seamen contend their positioni is based on the fact that if an accident occurred, to one of their number between the date fixed as the termination of the articles and the actual time of signing-off, no damages could be claimed from the Company. The Collector of Cdstoms informed the seamen that their action was contrary to law. JOURNALISTS AND NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS. Christdhurch, June 19. The Arbitration Court is taking evidence in a dispute between the Canterbury Journalists’ Association and the newspaper proprietors. Mr Pirani, for the employers, raised the question whether the Court should make an award. Mr Justice Sim said he* would hear argument on this point in . the usual course. Later, ho mentioned that there would have To be stfong reasons why the Court should not make an award in face of the agreements entered into elsewhere. In his preliminary statement, Mr Pirani said the question of preference was of the utmost importance. Mr Justice Sim said it had been conceded in tho Dunedin agreement. The Union is calling evidence.