WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 23 September 1913, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

THE DUBLIN RIOTS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press .Association.] London, September 22. Forty-two people were sent to the hospital in Dublin. The mounted poliee brandished their swords and charged Lombard Street. Several of those injured are suffering from sword-cuts. Trouble is about to culminate with the ejection of hundreds of tenants of the tramway and merchants’ carting companies, for adopting the no-rent policy.

THE TRANSPORT STRIKE

London, September 22

A great meeting of motor-'bus drivers and conductors in London reiterated a resolve to strike at midnight tonight unless Askwith's conference conceded the full demands of the railwaymen at Bradford. While supporting the National Union Executive in condemning the precipitate action. at Liverpool, pending a definite policy concerning the blackleg traffic, it.urged the executive to grant £SOO a week to the Dublin lock-out fund.

BACK TO TOIL. (Reecived 8.45 a.m.) London, September 22

The railway strikers in Liverpool, Birmingham and-Derby have resumed work.

SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE DISPUTES. Johannesburg, September 22.

Mr Malan, in a speed) referring to the forthcoming compulsory registration of the Trade Unions Bill, hinted that the Federation of Trades would not he permitted to intervene in industrial disputes. He explained that individual trade unions would be represented, hut forbidden to introduce general political considerations into the adjustment of a dispute. He added that the Bill would provide for a secret ballot before declaring a strike. INCREASED COST OF LIVING. Sydney, September 2. Justice Heydon. in the Arbitration Court, dismissed the Railway Commissioners’ appeal against the Wages Board award, increasing drivers’ and firemen’s pay and shortening their hours, involving an extra outlay of £OO,OOO annually. He held that the increased anxieties and responsibilities of the advanced cost of living entitled the men to increases. THE CAPE BRETON TROUBLE. FPkr Press Association.! Wellington, September 22. The unloading of case oil from the steamer Cape Breton, over which some trouble arose at Auckland through the storemen demanding extra pay, was carried out here to-day without let or hindrance.