LABOR TROUBLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 117, 25 August 1910, Page 5

LABOR TROUBLES

SYDNEY StLAUGHTERMEN'S STRIKE.

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I Received August 24, 9.5 p.m. Sydney, August 24. The Carcase Butchers' Association discussed the slaughtermen's trouble. Two gentlemen acting as mediators submitted their case. After discussion, it was decided not to accept the terms proposed, and to await the decision of the Wageß Board. It is< stated that a number of the strikers' are going to New Zealand. AN AMPLICATION REFUSED. Received August 24, 9.5 p.m. Sydney, August 24. The Industrial Court refused the application of White, secretary of the Meat Packing Employees' Union, for leave to prosecute the indoor manager of the Sydney Meat Preserving Company for alleged breach of the Act in dismissing, an applicant without reasonable cause. The Court decided that a' prima facie case had ; not- been established

STRIKE OF FACTORY HANDS,

Received August 24, 9.5 p.m. Sydney, August 24,

Owing to the dismissal of a youth, fifty others employed in Leigh's Canister Factory left work. Negotiations failed. Leigh states that the dismissal was necessary in the interests of discipline, and that it was l not his intention to reinstate any of the strikers. The police are guarding the factory.

PERTH TRAM STRIKE. Received August 24, 9.5 p.m. Perth, August 24. '. .A warm debate took place in the Assembly over the tram' trouble. Several members denounced the arbitrary action of the police when the trams restarted. ■ Mr. Holman declared that the" whole was caused by the police, under ih? direction of Commissioner Hare, who wanted revenge because the labor Party years before had secured his suspension. The Premier regretted that the Arbitration Act had not effected the good expected:, The Court had settled a number of minor disputes, but the great industrial disputes, had been settled by j/rivate mediation.

DEMAND, FOR INCREASED WAGES. Adelaide, August 24. 'The Amalgamated Society of Engineers is demanding increased wages for employees in the iron trades. , '''''''MlNEßS'' UNION FINiED. August $4. The Collie Miners' Awn « as Been fined £25 over the recen^^rike.