WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 195, 15 February 1912, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

FISHERMEN'S, STRIKE. BOTH SIDES KTUHBORN.

' By Telegraph—Press Associativa. •»r .r Auckland, Last Night. Matters connected with the fisherstrike have become mor« acute. •Yfestemay the dealers met and unaniR ou sly resolved to refuse the prieede-taj-nded by the 300 men concerned. The'^shermen' are just as determined in the ■ attitude taken up on Saturday. A conference will be' held to discuss the situation. The dealers want Mr. Harle, Government Conciliation Commissioner, ti> act as mediator. v , .

CEMENT BA&S.

LABORERS REFUSE TO HANDLE,

STATEMENT BY BAG-MAKER,

I Christchufeh, Last Night. Regarding the refusal of the wharf laborers at .Wellington on Tuesday' to un- | loa4 cement from the Monowai,- which was not packed in paper lined bags, Mr. W. P. Murray, manager of the Textile Bag and Sack Company, states that a resolution was arrived at by the Waterside Workers' Conference on September 1, 1911, to l the effect that wharf laborers would decline to unload lime an<T cement after January 1, 1!)12. unless packed in paper-lined bags; consequently his company had only four months in which to manufacture the bags. In October last the cement manufacturers of the Dominion were informed by his company that it would be impossible to supply the bags until the 'middle of February, 1912, and the . Waterside Workers' Federation agreed to suspend tlieir refusal to handle cement unless, in.paper-lined,bags till that date. The first shipment of the bags; reached Auckland on February 10, the cement companies in the meantime having used all possible expedition to meet the requirements ,6f the waterside workers. (Previously these cement bags were made in Calcutta by coolie labor, but are now being made at the company's works in Dunedin. The company's principal works are in Christchurch, but in respect to these cement and lime bags they found that owing to the freight charges on the Lyttefton-Christchureh line they could not produce them here profitably, and consequently they are . being made in Duiielin, the company having erected special machinery for the purpose. It is probably only a question of time when all chemical manures "will have to be packed in similar bags to those used for cement and lime. :

POSSIBLE -TROUBLE AT GREYMOUTH

v ■ Greymouth, Last Night. The Greymouth Wha/rf Laborers' Union are making certain demands on the shipping companies for increased rates of pay, and meetings are held constantly: to decide what action is to be taken. The press is not admitted, but it leaks out, that the union is making demands fot much increased rates of pay.