LABOR TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 147, 30 September 1910, Page 5

LABOR TROUBLES.

ENGLISH LABOR EXCHANGES. A MANAGER REMOVED. <By Cable.—(Press Association.—Copyright. Received 29, 10 p.m. Loudon, September 29.Mr. Sydney Buxton (President of the : Board of Trade) suspended the manager of the Bradford Labor .Exchange, owing to the latter reminding employers of labor of the Exchange'* services in filling vacancies during; disputes in the woolcombing industry, hoping that the employers would reciprocate in normal times by making use of the Exchange. Arbitrators raised the wool-combing warehousemen's wages .to a uniform rate of 24s a week in August, 1911, and to 25s in 1012, MINING AND COTTON DISPUTES. London, 28. Further results of the Welsh miners' ballot, confirm yesterday's cablegram, though, fifty, per cent. <of tihe men abstained from voting]. Meanwhile the Ely dispute is likely to ho early settled, rendering the Cambrian" -Strike unnecessary. In the cotton spinners' dispute the card-room workers, Replying to the employers, declare that cthey are willing to submit the dispute to arbitration if when Fern Mall has Ibeen re-started the discharged grinder is 'reinstated. This the employers have hitherto consistently refused. The cotton masters Slave decided not to yield, and the k>ck-!rmt must proceed. . The South Wales miners, by a majority of 25,929, favor a levy in support of the Cambrians. SLAUGHTERMEN'S TROUBLE. Melbourne, September 29. The slaughtermen's trouble has been finally settled and an agreement having currency for three years has been signed providing, for a rate of 275, 6d per 100 all round.