WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 50, 4 July 1913, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

ARBITRATION BOARD APPOINTED.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! [United Press Association.] Johannesburg, July 3.

Six thousand, out of twenty thousand, white miners have struck. The Cabinet has appointed an arbitration board, andh as asked Mr Gladstone to use his influence towards a settlement.

EFFECT OF DOCKERS' STRIKE. (Received. 11.35 a.m.) London, July 3. The dockers' strike at Leith has thrown 11,000 Lothian miners idle.

SEWERAGE MEN "DOWN TOOLS "

Invercargill, July \

A strike occurred on a. section of the sewerage works to-day, when sixteen men downed tools. They demand a rise from nine shillings to ten shillings per day. They arg : excavating at a depth of .eleven >. feet;..; on wet ground, and claim ten shillings as reasonable for such work.' The Mayor is "calling "Councillors ntogether to consider the situation.

(Received 1.35 p.m.) Capetown, July 3

l Owing to sabotage on the "East Rand, 2000 Imperial troops were sent to the Witwatersrand to co-operate with the police. The Miners* Association declares that nearly all the min-, ers have struck and that the remainder will be out to-morrow. . ;