WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7716, 19 January 1905, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

; " fOMD-WDE DISSATISFACTION £ Colliery Strike at Heicastle. SYDNEY, Jan. 18. The coal-owners have signified that Uiey are prepared to resume work at once, but the miners require ' Um» to teke a referendum on the Attorney-Generajl's proposal, which he submitted to representatives of Uie mine-owners and employees urging them, in toe public interest, to secure tho resumption of work conditionally on the Arbitration Court sitting in Newcastle /immediately to inquire into the dispute. " The taking of the referendum will occupy several days. The hearing of summonses against the wheelers has been postponed till Thursday. (Received Jan. 19, 0.47 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 18. The hearing of the cases against the Newcastle wheelers was postponed, on the application of the Crown, till Friday. Counsel for the wheelers intimated that he intended to refuse to plead, and so raise thefques- ' tion of jurisdiction.. The general situation remains unchanged, w The officials of the Employers' •v Federation meet to-morrow to discuss the Attorney-General's proposal to resume work. It is rumoured that they will submit a proposal to l the Miners' Delegate Boards which, ' if adopted, will settle the strike in twenty-four hours. I <r " The opinion is expressed that the i only possible way. to achieve this will be for the miners to decline to support the striking wheelers, and this is improbable. Strike in St. Petersburg. SEEKING TO PACIFY WORKERS. St. PETERSBURG, Jan. 18. The manager at Putiloff's ironworks undertakes to inquire into the case of dismissal of unionists complained of if the strikers will resume work. v lestpnalian Colliery Trouble. AN EXTENSIVE STRIKE. ► BERLIN, Jan. 18. Up to the present 154,000 men employed in 202 Wcstphalian pits have struck". Difficulties at Bain. NEARLY ENDED. " St. PETERSBURG, Jan. 18. Owing -to concessions being granted fcy the masters the strike of workers at the -Baku oil wells has nearly ended.