WORK AND WAGES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 145, 28 September 1910, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES

OOrTON SPINNERS' DEMAND. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received September 27, 11.50 p.m. London, September 27. The cotton spinners insist on Earmmill resuming immediately; otherwise the lookout will proceed. NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUING. London, September 26. The Edinburgh conferences lhave admittedly cleared the air towards a settlement. The boilermakera' representatives have appointed a small committee to consider the employers' proposals! in detail, to suggest any alterations deemed necessary, and finally to submit a practicable draft scheme to the next meeting of the conference. The employers proposed that the fia»>s for breach of agreement should be 30s for the first breach andi £3 for ILe second, tSue society guaranteeing payment, andi the fines to g-o to the (benefit of ■ boilermakers' widow® and orphans. Members -refusing to agree to the arrangement were to be debarred from employment in tibe federated yards 'or progressive periods according to the number of times the offence was repeated, and the society for such periods was not to pay rebellious members unemployment or other benefits. Negotiations with the employers continue. ' A CALAMITOUS CRISIS. ' * London, September 26. Mr. Maihon, in view of to-morrow's ballot of W-elslh miner®, advises supporting the Cambrian miners financially into prevent a, calamitous crisis. The latter is carried there will be nothing to prevent a calamitous crisi. The ■men will not be allowed to resume except on terms less favorable than at present.

VICTORIAN EMPLOYERS PROTEST. Melbourne, September 27. At the annual meeting of the Employers' Association, the president voiced a strong complaint against labor legislation. Every visitor found something, wanting in Australian enterprise, and attributed it to labor legislation. He prophesied that if the nationalisation sdleme were carried out private enterprise would die out. LABOR ON SHIPS. ' Sydney, September 27. The secretary of the Seamen's Union has returned from the Melbourne. conference. He. states witfh regard to the question of enforcing Australian working conditions on all ships trading on the Australian coast that tlhe conference agreed l to wait the passing of the Navigation Act, which it is hoped will remedy tbe principal grievances of seamen.