LABOUR MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 111, 8 May 1903, Page 3

LABOUR MATTERS.

Per Prets Association. Melbotjrxb, May 7. General meetings of every branch o: the Railway Societies will be held to night. On their decisions, the execu tive will determine their course o! action. The President of the Amalgamated Society Blades that if Parliament passed a law prohibiting affiliating, the men would observe if, though under pretest, They relied on Parliament to recognise the justness of their contentions. There is no doubt that the ringleaders of what the Premier terms the revolt are the executive officers of the Engine Drivtrt>' Assertion. What they decide to-night the others will follow. It is understood that a measure will be submitted to Parliament forbidding the affiliation of the Railway Unions with the Trades Hall. Rtceived 7, 10.3 p.m. Mblboubne, May 7. A gazette has been issued summoning Parliamect. Each of the 40 members of the executives of the four Ucio'. s has received the notice referred to yesterday. There is the u'most secrecy amongst men, the executive's order b ing that they are not to talk about the crisis. Christchtjrch, May 7. At the Arbitration O. u<t this afternoon, Frederick Williame, master baker, wa« charged wi<h allowing a late fmployee to commence work before the proper time. Th« ca*e was adj urce-t till to-morrow, as there was a charge against Jumes Nor'on of employing a non-Unioni-ir, while Unionists were out of employment. Dunedin, May 7, At a meeting of the Tribes and Labour Council it w»s resolved that the action of the Victorian Government in their attempt to deprive the Victorian railway servants of tbeir civil liberry is unwarranted and reprehersible, and against the teachings and experience if an educated democracy, and the Council urg-s the railway servants to resist such steps to the u most, io the interests of liberty and ti ua citizenship.