INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 100, 5 January 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

OVERDOING IT. THE MINERS' DEMANDS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 4. !».->0 p.m. l-om'.oii, .iauuary 4. Mr. T. Burt, M.P.. has circularised the Northumberland Miners' Association to the effect that too many big and complex questions are being >i:uultaneously raised. First, the raising of the. minimum wage of hewi'is: then the payment of average wage* in abnormal places: and finally, the enforcement of a minimum wage for all grades. Mr. Wilson, secretary of the Duriiam Association, is similarly antipathetic to the agitation for a minimum wage, on the ground that it is impracticable from a business standpoint. TROUBLE IN BELGIUM. Received 4. 11.20 p.m. Brussels, January 4. . A strike has occurred at Borinag, owing to the masters paying wages fortnightly instead of weekly, in order to facilitate the stoppage of contributions for old age pensions. SYMPATHETIC STRIKE WANTED. London, January 3. Blackburn unionists have asked the Federation of Trades Unions to consider a sympathetic stoppage of work. TROUBLE IN MELBOURNE. SHIPPING HELD UP. Received 4, 10 p.m. Melbourne. January 4. Shipping was held up while the wharf laborers met to discuss the question of an increase in pay from 13d to 17d an hour. The meeting, which wni extremely noisy, appointed delegates to confer with representatives of the Steamship Owners' Federation oh Monday. Meantime the men resume to-morrow. THE LITHGOW STRIKE. Sydney, January 4. The Lithgow strikers have decided to ask the Federal Government to suspend the iron bonus untl pig-iron is produced by registered union labor only. RABBIT TRAPPERS' STRIKE. Received 5,12.15 a.m. Sydney, January 4. A strike of rabbit trappers is in progress in Murrumburra, owing to the freezing works lowering the price. The , trouble is spreading to other districts. The president of the Trappers' Union Bays it may involve six thousand men. The trappers only recently organised.