Labor Matters

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 172, 20 January 1914, Page 5

Labor Matters

STRIKE CLAUSE REPEALED. * IN BILLS' OK LADING. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. Received lOj 5 p.m. London. January ID. Tin; Peninsular and Oriental Company and other trading lines trailing to Australasia, have declined to insert n strike clause in their hills of hiding, as proposed hy the International Shipping Combine.

TROUBLES IX AUSTRALIA. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Sydney, January 1!J. The wharf hands only worked the ordinary hours on Saturday, resulting in chaos. The. Willochra left a quantity oi untonderal cargo on the wharf. Other steamers were delayed or sailed without portions of their cargo.

It is understood that direct action resulted in the failure of the Melbourne conference to effect a settlement. The men are demanding two shillings an hour overtime instead of Is Cd and 2s 3d respectively. .Mr. Hughes believes the men's aetic/rt in declining to work overtime represents the deliberate intention of the Sydney branch of the Federation. Presumably a small section of extremists precipitated the trouble. The Telegraph understands that the Xcw South Wales branch of the Federation of Labor has been officially approached by the Worker,-,' Union with a view of having the embargo on "black" wheat extended by the unions governed by the Federation. If this is agreed to wheat will be blocked on certain railway lines.

SYDNEY WHARFiES. Received '2: l. V'.V, a.m. Sydney, January l!). Contrary to anticipations the wharfies refused to work after live p.m. until the <i»estion of overtime had been settled. A meeting will be held on Wednesday, and Mr. Hughes is expected to attend. The Cdahcno, Mokoia and Moeraki should be worked on Tuesday find Wednesday night, but probably will be delayed.

A SOUTH AL'STKALIAX STKIIvE. Adelaide, -January ID. The watersiders at Wallaroo ceased work on Saturday owing to the refused o: the employers to grant the same rate for handling salt as wheat—fourteen shillings a day. The Clan MclJillan sailed With eighty tons of wheat and salt.

(■FUTILITY OF STUIKES. INTERESTING- STATISTICS. London, January 1!). The Bosrd of Trade statistics, supplemented by the Trade Unions' returns show that the loss of wages in ten organised industries from stoppages due to disputes of all kinds in the past decade was £17,41:1,188. The net gain in wages resulting from the disputes was £2,714,310, leaving a loss of £U,«iIB,S4O, but (he workers a-i a whole obtained in the decade an increase of fifteen million sterling, chiefly through the conciliation machine/y and working agreements.

Of every hundred strikes or lock-outs in the decade, employers won lif the workers twenty-five and twenty-five were compromised. LAUXOEKTOX PRINTERS' STRIKE. Received 20. 1 a.m. Launceston, January 10. Tlie printers' strike Both papers are daily improving Choir issue?, which are being produrd by non-union hands. Neither sale will gi.e way. Developments are expected.