INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 190, 9 February 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

■j . «—. —— THE MINING INDUSTRY. A CRISIS REACHED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, February 7. A crisis has been reached at the National Conference in connection with the mining industry, owing to the stand taken by Mr. Enoch Edwards, MJ\, on behalf of the miners, who, he said, are determined to ignore the existing agreements in connection with the demand for a minimum wage. The South Wales coal owners thereupon withdrew, regarding the statement as a notification of the intention to tear up the agreements. THE MINIMUM WAGE. MINE-OWNERS DISAGREE WITH PRINCIPLE. Received) 9, LIS a.m. London, February 8. The conference between mine-owners i and miners has reached a deadlock. The owners admitted the principle of a fair wage, and offered 1 special consideration for abnormal places, but declined to recognise the individual minimum wage. The miners asserted) that a settlement was,'impossible unless the mini".iiun: wage was conceded. Mr. Askwith's efforts to settle the asgow dockers' trouble have proved übortive, and the men-lave determined to fight. WHARF LABORERS RESUME. Received 8, 0.45 p.m. Newcastle, February 8. The wharf laborers have fesumed, pending a conference.