WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 January 1914, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYMEN.

DECLARE A STRIKE.

t liY EIEOXKXO i ELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT] [United Press Association.] (Received 8 a.m.) Pretoria, January 7. The South African Government has not withdrawn the retrenchment order in connection with the railwayinen. A mass meeting declared a strike throughout the Union, commencing on Thursday. Other branches of organised labor are being asked to support the strike.

PREPARING FOR TROUBLE.

PRECAUTIONS AT CAPETOWN. (Received 9.-15- a.m.) Pretoria, January 7. Notices have been posted throughout the Transvaal railways ordering a strike at midnight.' A special meeting of the Cabinet discussed the situation, after which Mr Malan, Minister of Education, and Colonel 1 rutter, Chief - of Police, left for Johannesburg.

Extensive precautions have been taken to preserve order at Capetown. The citizens are forming a committee of public safety to prevent disorder if the railway strike spreads.

THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

London, January .

The sailors and liremen’s ballot regarding the Dublin strike resulted in a decision against resumption of work.

THE MUSICIANS’ STRIKE

EARLY SETTLEMENT PROBABLE. (Received 1050 a.in.) Sydney, January 8. Indications point td an early settlement in the theatre musicians’ trouble. In granting demands several .Melbourne proprietors, have conceded the demand of a payment of 10s for every performance, including matinees.

THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE

(Received 10.50'a.m.) Hobart, January 8,

The printers’ strike lias extended lo Launceston. The mechanical stall of the Examiner ceased work as a protest against the proprietors assisting in the publication of the Hobart papers.

MILITIA CALLED OUT.

DANCER OF STRIKE SPREADING

(Received 12.10 p.m.)

Pretoria, January 7

The authorities have palled out the volunteers and special constables, many being sworn in. The Federation of Trades threaten i general strike if no settlement is arrived at bv Saturday.

TRANSVAAL MINERS.

AND THE COLOR LINE.

(Received 10.50 a.in.)

Capetown, January 7

\ The Transvaal Miners’ Association has issued a statement refusing to ulmit “coloureds” despite the Labor Party Conference’s decision to enrol them as a party organisation.

STRIKE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS.

MARRIED AGAINST THE RULES.

(Received 11.35 a.m.) New York. January 7. A college students’ strike lias occurred at Shaw University, North. Carolina, because the president dismissed a student who married against the.college rules. When the University Board upheld the president,. 250 students left the class room. The Board ' afterwards expelled ‘wervone concerned. THE TAUPIRI MINES. [Pm Rnrsq Assert\tton.l Auckland, January 7. At a full meeting of the directors of the Taupiri Coal Mining Company this afternoon, the following resolution was arrived at, in answer to the deputation from the men at Huntly, expressing their willingness to return and join the new union if the company would reinstate the men without discrimination :—“After carefully considering the proposals submitted by the deputation, the directors cannot see their way to give effect to the proposition, as there is a small percentage of the men on srike who have, with sot, purpose, noted a part inimical to the company’s interests, and whom the directors feel it would b© inadvisable to re-employ,“