WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 136, 17 September 1910, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

THE SHIPBUILDING DISPUTE. Cable, —Press Association.— Copyright London, September 15. The Shipbuilding Employers' Federation is awaiting tlie iboilermakeis suggestions, hence an intimate, conference of the joint trades committee is inadvisable at present, but it Will v meet ii the committee deems it likely to be useful. _____ i labor exchanges condemned. Received September 16, 10.30 a.m. London, September 16. Contrary to Mr. D. J. Shackjelon's advice, the Trades Union Congress, by 1>147,000 to 27-2,000, condemned labor exchanges as now managed, and demanded a communication to the trade union officials of particulars of wages offered through exchanges; secondly, the enforcement of trade union rates j and, thirdly, the non filling of vacancies due to disputes. SWEATING IN IRELAND. Received September 17, 10.30 p.m. London, September 16. Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P., in a letter to the Government, urges the institution of a public enquiry into sweating in the linen trade at < Belfast. THE OSBORNE DECISION. London, September 15. The Trades Union Congress, by 1>,717,1/00 votes to 13,000, passed a revised resolution demanding the immediate reversal of the Osborne decision. Several speakers threatened that unless the Government reversed the decision 'before next election, the unions would use their funds, legally, or illegally, to help trades unions to win seats. MR. SHACKLETON'S VIEWS. Received September 17, 12.30 a.m. London, 'September 16. Mr. D. J. Shackleton, on the Osborne debate, delivered a temperate speech. He recalled the success of. the unite! inbor movement in winning the Government to the Labor side in the Taff Vale judgment; also in getting the Government nearer them in the Old Age Pension and Workmen's Compensation Acts. He hinted) that he knew privately that nobody regretted the. Osborne decision more that the members of the Cabinet.

The 'Daily News states that the growth of feeling! at the Taff Vale and the Osborne judgments shows striking parallelism, and up to the present the latter is not the less imposing, but nei-. ther the Labor Party nor anybody elvp can expect Parliament to act in advaii/o of public opinion, Which is not yet converted. Tihe Morning Leader doubts if angry debates at the Congress forwarded the cause. There was no parity between the Osborne and the Taff Vale cases, as the Lords would negative the reversal of the Osborne judgment. It was an extravagant proposition to ask the Government to go to the 'country on a question wherein the Tories were solid, and the liberals divided. Trade Unionists were united.