WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 86, 15 August 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

A STRIKE FRUSTRATED. [By Electiuc Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Sydney, August 14. Mr Justice Heydon nipped in the bud to-morrow's intended general strike of shop and warehouse employees at Broken Hill by granting an injunction against the president and secretary of the Barrier Labor Federation for instigating and aiding a strike.

PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS. Melbourne, August 14. The London Building Industries' Federation has cabled Mr Fisher, Leader of the Opposition, protesting against the Government striking out the preference : to Unionists clause in the contract for the erection of the Commonwealth Buildings in London. ENDED. Sydney, August 14. The wheat-handlers' strike has ended. The Railway Commissioner has agreed to tho reinstatement of the casual hands pending the hearing of a test case by the Industrial Court. Work will be resumed to-morrow morning.

WAGES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, August 14. Figures prepared by the Industrial Registrar show the following increases in the weekly wages of New South Wale©, compared with 1903: —Tailors, 10s, plumbers, 12s; painters, 15s, farriers, lis; laborers, 10« 6d; carpenters, 6s; plasterers, 12s ; ironworkers' assistants, 18s. The estimated average weekly increase is £368,444, each adult worker receiving an average of 10s 6d, involving a yearly increase of over £lO,000,000 as compared with the 1903 rates.

THE LEITH STRIKERS. (Received 10.45 a.m.) London, August 14. The strikers carried a resolution to resume work on the old terms. THE BARCELONA STRIKE.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special. Cables (Received 8.0 a.m.) Paris, August 14.

The Barcelona strike is unsettled. Two hundred and thirty-eight cotton factories are to shut down, and 22,000 employees having struck. Troops are guarding the railways, banks, and convents. A railway strike is threatened.