INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 273, 15 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

MINERS' WAGES. By Cable—Presi Association—Copyright Received 14, 11.50 p.m. London, May 14. The independent chairman in North Staffordshire gave awards satisfying the miners. The wages range from 5» to 6s 2d for men and from Is 7d to 4* led for boys. The Leicestershire awards are also satisfactory. Mr. Redmond has received a message from the Polish party in the Russian Duma congratulating him on the passage of the Home Rule Bill. A sub-committee of the National Health Insurance Committee recommends better pay for outworkers, and that they should be treated similarly to inworkcrs under the Insurance Act, while it should be made permissible for the poorer-paid outworkers to determine their contributions according to the work done. Lord St. Aldwyn, at the Conciliation Board at Cardiff, rejected the masters' demand for a decrease and the men's demand for an increase, but it is believed that the men will probably succeed at the next review of the wa«e rates before June 30. °

THE COAL INDUSTRY. London, May 13. Through Lord Mersey's award for the Northumberland Conciliation Board's district being retrospective there is a windfall of £20,000 accumulated wages. The newspapers report that there is a wave of indignant disapproval. Mr, Straker, general secretary of the union, complains that the award does not grant the 5s which all parties considered was the reasonable minimum. The president of the union considered the minimum worth fighting for, as it meant a considerable advance to many underpaid workers.

THE STRIKE LAW. Sydney, May 14. Speaking at Lithgow, Mr. Beeby declared that the trades unionists have to face the fact that a law prohibiting strikes exists, and as machinery for the settlement of disputes is provided, breaches of the law must carry the penalties imposed by Parliament. He warned, any future strikers that the Government would enforce the law.