LABOUR MATTERS.
STRIKES IN NEW YORK. A SERIOUS CONDITION. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Niw York, May 12. Strikes atd lockouts in New York involve 109,000 carpenters, brickmakerp, teamsters and subway employees, and are stopping ssventy-five million dollars worth of work. Received 13,11.59 p.m. Loudon, May 13. The Clyde engineers are re3umicg work. Received 14, 0.11 ft.m New Yohk, May 13. The stevedores stlike at Valpariso is spreading. The police fired upon th 9 strikers, killing and woundiog a dozen. 1 Trade is paralysed. Auckland, May 13. < In reply to the Trades at d Labour Council deputation, the Premier sa : d ' the Goverrment intend to ask Parlia- « ment to give preference to unionists, j safeguarded so as there could be no ' abuse of the power given by the Legislature. The Government would also appoint inspectors of awards, and he would ask Pailiament to peifccb the Arbitration Act so that what occurred in the Auckland furniture trade would not occur again, He also expressed an opinion thic there was room for a Government fire insurance department. | i
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 116, 14 May 1903, Page 3
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174LABOUR MATTERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 116, 14 May 1903, Page 3
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