WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 115, 4 November 1911, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

TROUBLE AT WANGANUI. * By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night. Wanganui, which is in flic, throes of an officers' strike, is about to undergo another, this time at the hands of the Government. About eighteen months ago lion. Millar promised the waterside workers an increase of 2d per ton in handling cargo. The Railway Department carries out work on the wharf for the Board. The Wanganui Board, however, refused to pay the additional increase, and negotiations have been going on since the Board's ultimatum to the Department in January last that it would take over the work. The last communication to tiro Department was through the Board's solicitors over three- months ago. The solicitors yesterday received a reply that the 'Department would cease to' work the wharf on November ill unless satisfactory arrangements were arrived at. The Board is holding a special meeting to-morrow. The officers' strike is assuming another phase here. Steamers are arriving to-morrow officered bv captains, and alleged to 'have been loaded at Wellington by non-unionists. A meeting of the waterside workers to-night is understood to have decided that if the Wellington Union is in sympathy, the local men will probably go out. THE SHIPPING STRIKE. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, wrote to the Merchant Service Guild and to the Shipowners' Federation with the object of bringing an end to the present shipping trouble, and suggested that the Auckland agreement should be taken as a basis on which to frame a settlement satisfactory to all parties. A meeting of the Guild was held to-day, when it was unanimously resolved to decline to entertain Mr. Hally's proposal, j