INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 1 February 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

CONFERENCE OF MINERS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, January 30. A joint conference of owners and miners on the British coalfields will be held on February 7 to discuss the minimum wage. " ' * The Scottish miners have tendered six months' notice of the termination of the existing agreement, but the owners contend that insistence upon the minimum Wage is itself a breach of the agreements. The Conciliation Board will discuss the point on February 9. THAMES IRONWORKS AGREEMENT. London, January 30. The. trades unions strongly disapprove of the decision of the Thames Ironworks employees to sacrifice half the i November advance in wages in order to enable the company to secure contracts for two cruisers. The executives of the carpenters and joiners', engineers and boilermakers', and shipwrights trades unions h&v., intimated to their members working ar the iThames Ironworks that they will not be allowed to accept wages below the Tates prescribed for the London district. A DOCKERS' STRIKE. London, January 30. Seven thousand dockers who are striking at Glasgow demand that non-union-ists shall be discharged if unionists are available to replace" them, also that foremen shall be members of the union.