LABOUR MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 113, 11 May 1903, Page 3

LABOUR MATTERS.

FEB PKBSS ASSOCIATION, I .Nuw York, May 8, | Mr Carnegie, in his presidential address to the Iron and Ste»l Institute, said that if < very man was a shareholder it woul" jeod most of the co&flicfc between capital a> d labour. Received 10, 5.2 p m. London, May 9, Mr S^akelton's Bill to legalise peace-1 ful persuasion and picketing, and to; prohibit action agaiust Trade Unions i as euch wasrejtcted by 246 votts to 226. i The Government opposed the Bill, but j promised an ir quiry. Mr. Balfour characterised the measure cs fragmentary, ambiguous, and; apparently alarmingly revolutionary in regard to 6ome faep.c'rs o'f most compli-cated-questions going to the rott of industrial life. Parliament mast shottly reconsider tbe whole position of combinations of workmen, employers, and capitalist?, and it was advisable that a commission should investigate these modern social and economic phenomena and throw a light to guide them as to principles and lines of future action. Tbe majority consisted entirely cf unionists, many ministerialists abstaining from voting. The executive in London withheld strike pay to the Clyde engineers.