INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 151, 5 October 1910, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

THE COTTON DISPUTE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, October 3. The cotton trouble appears more hopeful of solution. Mr. Askwith, of the Board of Trade, is negotiating on the basis of Howe —tile man about whom the difficulty in Fern Mill arose—taking a. holiday during the arbitration proceedings or being employed in another mill, the loser in the arbitration ultimately paying his wages. Thus there would be no surrender of principle on either side. •The master cotton-spinners have rejected the cardroomers' proposal. A TRIVIAL POINT. Received 4, 10 p.m. London, October 4. Tile cotton operatives have demanded Chat Howe be found work at another mill as a preliminary to arbitration. The employers have replied that they would recommend the millowners that Howe be given the first vacancy. Mr. Askwith also suggested as a point for tile conference, prior to arbitration, to discuss the powers under the Brooklands decision .to alter working) conditions of operatives. The latter have agreed to ibis. A FALSE ALARM. Received October 4, 11 pjn. London, October 4. Some of the cotton mills, believing a settlement would be reached by Sunday, opened yesterday, but closed again an hour later. The error led to the Doxology and Te Deum being sung in some churches and chapels. YEAR-OLD STRIKERS REJECT NEW TERMS. Received October 4, 11' pjn. London, October 4. Nine hundred miners, of the Clifton colliery, Nottinghamshire, after being on •tribe for a year, in consequence of a readjustment of wages, owing to the instalment of new machinery, have now rejected the amended terms. The Miners' Association have already paid £Boyooo in strike pay. ' ''•'. BERLIN iMETAL WORKERS. BIG LOCK-OUT THREATENED. Received 4, 8.50 p.m. Berlin, October 4: The prospect of the lock-out of •80,000 metal workers is gloomy. Electricians threaten to strike in sympathy. SHEARERS, ON STRIKE. THE MEDDLESOME AGITATOR. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night. Shearers were about to start work to-day at Faulkner's station, Muriwai, 16 miles from Gisborne, when the local union secretary appeared on the scene and conferred with the men. As a result of the conversation, whatever it'was, the shearers, who were natives, threw down their shears and refused to proceed. They had engaged to shear with blades at 20s a hundred and tea hundred extra for finding themselves. After the conversation with the union secretary, the men told the employers that they would not shear except they got 90s a hundred and found in rations by the employers. A deadlock ensued. Both sides are firm. The men left the shed. A meeting of sheep owners of the district will be held to-morrow to discuss 1 Ifce position, tint it is almost sure they will not agree to the men's demands.