LABOR TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 252, 14 March 1913, Page 5

LABOR TROUBLES.

.NOTICE TO ST HIKE AT CHATHAM, By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 12. The litters at Chatham have given notice declining to work overtime until the Admiralty concedes the requested increase. Four thousand are indirectly all'ected. A STRIKE AVERTED, Received 14.. 12..) a.m. London, .March 13. 'lhe masters and men have accepted the Hoard of Trade agreement, averting the linkers' strike. The men's terms were conceded, with the exception of substituting lifty-four for sixty hours weekly. SYDNEY CAS STRIKE. Sydney, March 10. The Oas Employees' Council accepted the companies' oiler to submit the agreement relating to wages to a Wages Board. BRISBANE TRAM STRIKE ECHO. Brisbane, March 1 :J. A Full Court upheld the appeal ol Smith versus the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. The plaintill', the engineer in charge of the tramway companies' power house, had been excluded from the Society because he disobeyed the order of the district committee to cease work during the strike in 1!)12. Defendants intend to appeal to the High Court. NEWCASTLE .MINES. POSITION OMINOUS. Sydney, March 10. At the conference of proprietors and men of the Newcastle district, the proprietors asked the Employees' Federation to give :t monetary bond against stoppages. This was declined, and the proprietors then suggested that local iigivenit uls be allowed. The men objected. and the conference ended without any result having been arrived at. The position is not bright. IMPORTED MILL HANDS. TROUBLE AT PETONE. Wellington. Thursday. Trouble occurred at the I'etone woollen mills over the action ol' the Wellington Woollen Company in importing three female warpers from England. It appears that when the girls arrived they were informed by the union that, they would lie getting weekly, and were to replace three men who were getting C2 1 u's. The union oil'ered them C2 ."is weekly not to start, striking a levy of Is per head to tind the money. The young women agreed, but after an interview with the mill manager two girls decided to commence work, and did so yesterday. The third starts to-day. The company's representatives say that the girls have been badgered by the. union: the union men say the company has bullied the girls. MARINE ENCINKERS. Wellington. Thursday. The engineers of the "nio-i|iiito" fleet will reopen negotiations with the emnlo' ers neyl week. The principal issue is the payment of overtime.