INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 171, 18 January 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

THE COAL MINERS' GRIEVANCES.

STRIKE IMPENDING.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright,

London, January 16.

TIk 1 South Wales Conciliation Board had ah abortive meeting, the owners refusing to discuss the schedule proposing a minimum of eight shillings for coalgetters and five shillings for other laborers.

The Standard declares that 283,000 miners voted for a strike, and 67,000 against. The Scottish Miners' Federation has requested the summoning of the Conciliation Board to receive the miners' six months' notice of the termination of the existing wages agreement. COTTON TRADE TROUBLE. t London, January 16. Sir G. R. Askwith's conferences on the cotton dispute sat throughout the day and adjourned. Subject to the approval of the operatives, Sir G. R. Askwith's Conciliation Conference agreed on the resumption of work on the basis of half a year's truce, and adjourned, till Friday to consider details. MASTERS'. NEW PROPOSALS. Received 17, 10.10 p.m. London, January 17. The cotton masters propose that if at the end of a half year's truce Sir G. R. Askwith failed to find a solution of the non-unionist question, the machinery will not be stopped without six months' notice. The masters' proposals were submitted to the operatives forthwith. It is calculated the stoppage would cost six millions. The trade-unionists have spent two hundred thousand, and the spinners two hundred and forty-three thousand. Professor Chapman, in a paper read before the Statistical Society, showed that between sixty and eighty per cent, of the cotton masters began life as operatives or clerks. STRIKE OF CARPENTERS. Brisbane, January 17. The strike of carpenters at .Townsville is over. The question was one of bonus hours. Hitherto it has been the practice to pay for 48 hours, though the men ordinarily worked only 47 hours. PERTH ENGINEERS' STRIKE. Perth, January 17. All overtures for the settlement of the engineers' strike have so far proved, unavailing. Received 17, 11.15 p.m. Perth, January 17. • The conference of engineers, boilermakers and iron-moulders, with the Parliamentary Labor Party, proved abortive, the Parliamentarians declining to acquiesce in the union's refusal of the Government offer to increase their pay by sixpence a day. RABBITERS RESUME WORK. Sydney, January 17. The rabbiters' strike at Blayney has been settled, the men accepting the freezing company's offer. Received 17, 11.15 p.m. Sydney, January 17.

The president of the Rabbit Trappers' Union declares that the recent trouble, was due to the operations of the rabbit combine. The union intends to urge the Government to establish factories in order to smash the combine.