WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 42, 25 June 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

THE NORfHERN COLLIERS

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [ United Press Association.] (Received 8.45 a.m.)

There has been a recurrence of the trouble with the northern colliers. Three mines, Wooloroh, Ellesmere Vale and Stanford-Merthyr are idle owing to the management declining the men's demands.

SYDNEY Gas strike, h

Sydney, June 24

Justice Heydon fined one employee £lO, and 99 others £B, with costs of a guinea, for participating in the recent gas strike. The judge said that the men's cessation of work was clearly a strike against an industrial agreement. Such 1 agreements were not less binding than awards, but rather more so, since they embodied the actual consent of both parties. The judge also rejected the contention that the right to prosecute had been given up by the agreement terminating the strike. The Government is 1 considering whe-- ,' ther to prosecute others concerned in the same strike.

A SHEADING DISPUTE

[Pee Press Association.] Napier, June 24

At the Magistrate's Court to-day Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., delivered his judgment in a case in which the Inspector of Awards claimed a penalty of £4O in respect of an alleged lock-out of defendant's shearers in November, when defendant's manager suspended shearing operations by dismissing tho shearers, with a view to compelling them to shear wet sheep, contrary to clause 13 of the Wellington shearers' award. Judgment was entered for £25 and costs.