LABOUR TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3656, 18 December 1920, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

CONFERENCE ADJOURNED. Received 12 Noon. v LONDON Dec. 17. ' > - A conference of representatives of the shipbuilders, and engineering Unions and employers agreed to adjourn for six months consideration of the demand for an increase of sixpence per hour, on the ground of the employers’ statement that the industry was unable to bear the cost. UNEMPLOYMENT. Received 12.50 p.m. 1 * • LONDON, Dec. 17. Replying to a Labour deputation in reference to the prevailing distress through unemployment the Minister of Labour, after reviewing the Government measures to provide work, said he could extend no hope relief measures, as the Government policy was not to revive the system of donations for civilians. It preferred to co-oper-ate with local authorities in poviding work for which grants had been made.