WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 128, 8 September 1910, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

; i. ' ' ■ BIG INDUSTRIAL WAK. U.T iPPOMING DISTANCE. <i J Association—4^p^riwjht. : <t Several sectional strikes are attributed to the extreme Socialises. •' (Mr. Hartshorn, th6-defeated candidate ■•"'for Mid-Glamorgan;" speaking tft "Maes- ; teg, said that one of strial upheavals' of £he was looming in the distance. The labor not yet developed the plans, which the . Xorkmeiji ought not ,to.,antfeip«tte by a premature action. No , recent five years'. agreement lasiT for that period. r«&ti»nal stoppage of work ought not tcfflJe undertaken, except for somethuiij| ; r wjcjrth having, such as - the nationalisation of mines. " : ' ! Mr. Winstone, member of the federa-, tion executive, in a speech at PontypooV. . welcomed the state of unrest, * and de- ■ fended the increase of subscriptions to" enable them to come to - mployersl. OUTRAGES AT PERTH. . ■ ! Perth,'•Septeinb® :v 7. 1 Negotiations for the settlement 1 the" " tram strike have fallen throug;ffi i **' i rlier.e' ■ were further attempted outrage® (hiring ■ the night. The controller -bars- v/catS > were pulled over, and when the :, ' was turned on two unmanned "cars • d'ashed through a bsrrigg.de jjfssed ' over a plug of dynamiter in which a ' detonator was embed l de(k :3:^tf Fhb-^caj!^t • missed' the detonator by si hair's hfeiidtih. , There were two plugs o£ on 4 ' other lines. i,<, vni i( • - H ~ ,!i J f FURTHER STRIKES IN !i GERMANY'. ' V -jDlib , Berlin, September 6.' Thousands of men have striiply iij the ; Vulcan yards at Stettin, .on,.the groupd . that the employers ha'd ' undertaken , work for other yards where 'inert; Jjad, struck. ; FINING UNION OFFENDERS. ' London; September 6h<^ It is reported that the Clyde Employers' Federation insists on the Boilermak- ' ers' Society in future fining offending ' members £5. ' BOILERMAKJERS' §TRIKE. ! SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. ' September 5. 12.5 a.m. ' London, September 7. I j The boilermiths at South Shields un- ! expectedly commenced an unauthorised I I strike. Considerable resentment is ex- ' | pressed on the Clyde at the tone of the '' executive's manifesto, and there will pos- ' sibly be large abstentions from the bal- ■ i lot. Man? Tynesiders urged defiance on ■ the ground that pressure of contracts 1 1 will force the masters to come to terms. 1 i Mr. Askwith, Comptroller of the Labor Statistical Deparment of the Board of Trade, has issued a Blue Book showing that two million workmen are affectedl by 262 existing conciliation' boards; 7508, disputes were settled during the period from 1000 to WOO.; and {stoppage of work preceded settlement in I only 104 cases.