WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 49, 3 July 1913, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

STRIKE IN BENDIGO. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Sydney, July 2. A hundred and sixty unionist miners r.t Bendigo have struck against the employment of a non-unionist. I Serious developments arc threatened. MINERS RECEIVE INCREASE Of*' 3d. (Received 10.55 a.m.) London, July 2. j A hundred thousand Scottish miners received an increase of threepence per shift. | LESS WORK FOR MORE PAY. { Lord Ahercomvay, presiding at the ! meeting of Mohm, Brown and Co., iLtd., at Sheffield, complained that the | workers were giving less work for more pay. Slackness was gradually eating up profits. He feared that slowness of delivery would result in loss of orders. UNIONIST MULCTED IN £SOO. (Received 12.20 p.m.) Mr Williams, the raihvaymen’s secretary, and Mr Thomas, M.P. for Derby, recovered £SOO from Passmore, a unionist, for accusing them of robbing the Union. ' Plaintiff alleged that. Passmore was actuated by malice because they would not dill a strike when Passmore was dismissed from employment.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINES. Johannesburg, July 2. The miners at Randfontein have struck. The executives of the Miners’ Associations and Federation of Trade ! Unions have unanimously resolved on a general strike at all mine works on Friday. (Received 11.45 a.m.) Capetown, July 2. Police detachments from various towns are concentrating at Johannesburg, where the authorities are arranging to protect all who are willing to work. The Scottish Fusiliers are guarding the power stations. The Natives declined to go underground at Moddier mine, because the white bosses were not there to look after them. Some fears are entertained that the railwaymen will join tho strike. A cablegram from London states that tho blood stock sales at Newmarket included Faslett, which realised 5200 guineas, Absolute 2300 guineas, and Preferment 2000 guineas.