GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 152, 2 March 1915, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH LABOUR INCREASED COST OF LIVING. CONTRACTORS’ HIGH PROFITS. (Per Press Association), LONDON, Feb. 28. This Miners' Federation of Great Britain are seeking an immediate advance in wag/es owing to increased cost of living. A conference to arrange details of the demand is fixed for the 17th March. Notices will be given throughout the kingdom on Ist April with a view to obtaining npw agreements. A conference to decide these details is fixed for April 28th. The District Committee of the Clyde engineers decided to support their executive. CLYDE ENGINEERS ON STRIKE GOVERNMENT CALLS ON THEM TO RESUME. LONDON, Feb. 28. The Clyde by a large majority rejected the employers’ offer of an advance of three farthings per hour. The dispute affects 100,000. Another 100,000 Tyne engineers are demanding an extra 6s weekly. The masters offer 2s. Sir.Georeje Askwith has written to the Unions concerned in the Clyde strike, stating that he is instructed by he Government thait dt is important that munitions urgently requir/ed by the army and navy should be supplied, and he must call for a resumption of work on Monday morning. SENSIBLE ADVICE TO BOTH SIDES. LONDON, Feb. 28. The Government Committee recommends employers and (employees' engaged in war work to endeavour to stop strikes; to immediately secure a full output; to abolish restrictive trade rules and customs; to employ women, ‘lf necessary,” in making shells and fuses in order to speed up production; to refer disputes promptly to the Government tribunal to avert stoppages; and to guarantee workers and trad/3 unions that nothing will prejudice them after the war. CHINO-JAPANESE CONFERENCE. TREATY PORTS OPENED. PEK(IN> Feb. .*2B. At the Chino-Japanese conference, the Chinese delegates agreed to open a number of treaty ports. Shantung rejected Japan’s alleged claim to a special position in Southern Manchuria and Eastern Inner Mongolia.

BOXING (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 28. In the light weight championship of Australia, McCoy defeated Mehegan in the fourteenth round.