LABOUR MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 105, 1 May 1903, Page 2

LABOUR MATTERS.

PREMIER'S CRITICISM OF ARBITRa. i j TION COURT. I FSB PRESS ASSOCIATION. i j Wellington, April 80. A deputation from the Trade*' { Council and Stationary Engine Drivers' Union waited oq the Premier this [ evening, nnd complained that the award of the Ai Court in dispute bejtweenthe diivrrs and employer* wh unfair to the workers, patticularly in , reg-ird to home of 1 .b ,ur and chssificatiou of certificates. I'. was all ged that , the engimi drivers at some dairy (mI tones »ere woikl g 7C htme weekly. I The Premier paid tbe only remedy ' was to gel a better award the next tine, He did not see why the Court had come to the conclusion it had, and he thought the Court was in en or. However, wtat he h-id heard was ex porta, and tbe>e might b* another side to tbe question. He would atk the Minister of Mat ire to git a report fiom the Inspector of Machinery as to evasions uf the law in grading of certificates, ar.d phcir.g boys in charge of engines. '■ The Premier then made some remarks concerning the furniture trade troubl jin Auckland It looked to him Bii-pici.u«ly like a lock-out when men wi re MidJi-nly found to be incompetent to e rn tbe wages awarded by the Court. It ippered that the fact of 70 men having been refused employment hid been overlooked. An amendm<nt-. of the law was necessary to provide agaii.st a r. petition of whit had occurred. 1 NON-UtflONl-STS ATIAOKBD. CARGO SRI' ON FIRP. THRKATENKD REMEDY. i Received 30.10.19 p.m. | Ottawa, April SO. I Tbe Tnngshorrmen strikers at Montreal uttacked the non-uiionit-ts,shoot-ing one of them. They set fire to the cirgo of a Leyland Lino M earner lying at the wharf, endangering the Canadian Pac fie Railway's grain elevator. The burn'ng cirgo was extinguished. S.x at rests were marie, and 1200 militit are guarding the harbour front and protecting the non-unionist s. Tbe s< ippiug companies threaten (o import 1000 English lumpers.