WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 134, 15 September 1910, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

HOPES OP SETTLEMENT. By Telegraph,—Press Association. London, September 13. It is hoped at Newcastle that a conference will soon be arranged between the trades and employers' federation in order amicably to adjust differences in connection with the working of the national agreement. The men's suggestions include that employers are not to engage unionists expelled for disobedience. It is also hoped ("to settle points in dispute connected) with the new system of ship construction.

The vote of the Great Northern Railway is interpreted as a proposal for re-arbitration.

A UNION SUED. London, September 13. A thousand workmen at Preston Colliery are suing the trustees of the Northumberland Miners' Union fox seven weeks' strike pay. They left work without notice to resist the' shift system, and strike pay was withheld though the county vote was in favor of the payment. INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

London, September 13. ' The Daily News says: "We have arrived at the stage of national agreement between employers and employed 1 . Trades unions are still suspicious of compulsory arbitration, but pressure of circumstances will tend to override the suspicious." TERRITORIALS AND TRADE DISPUTES. London, September 13. Fears being expressed that the territorials would ibe ordered to intervene in trade disputes, Mr. Tillett said that Mr. Haldane would gladly, use the territorials as regulars, but Labor must accept his assurances for the time being. REPAIR WORK REFUSED. Received September 15, 12.30 a.m. London, September 15. Owing to the lock-out, the manager of the graving dock on the Tyne is declining repair work. TROUBLE IN HOLLAND. Received September 15, 12.30 a.jn. London, September 15. The Rotterdam and Antwerp Joint Trades Committees request a conference with the employers, who urged a lockout, causing much bitterness among the men. Negotiations continue towards a conference.

SLAUGHTERMEN RESUME. Received September 14, 9.30 p.m. Adelaide, September 14. The slaughtermen decided to resume work to-morrow, and are to be paid 27s 6d per hundred sheep or lambs until the Conciliation Board's award (which takes effect as from August 23) opens in Melbourne.

PERTH TRAMWAY STRIKE. Perth, September 14. A meeting of tram strikers who had expressed dissatisfaction at the recent settlement decided to resume work. SHEARERS TROUBLE CONTINUES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. A further conciliatory attempt to heal up the differences in the shearing dispute have for the present failed. Last night, Messrs. J. R. Triggs and P. Hally, two of the Conciliation Commissioners, interviewed the representatives of the disputant parties, and asked them to confer once again with the commissioners this morning. Messrs. W. Pry or and H. Ackland, employers' representatives, did not see their way to agree to this, and an informal conference was held instand between the two commissioners and Messrs. F. Waddell and King, the m°n's representatives. It, however, came to nothing. It is understood that the shearers were willing to make what they termed a "sporting" offer, to remain open till the end of the week, but no definite arrangements were made. Subsequently Mr. Triggs requested the employers' representatives to state definitely in writing what they desired from the men, but the employers' representatives could not see their way to negotiate any further. At present it is understood that the Otago shearers' case will be heard in Dunedin on Thursday and Friday before the commissioners.