Labor Matters

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 180, 29 January 1914, Page 5

Labor Matters

THE COAL STRIKE IX ENGLAND. MaIjCOXTLYTS RESU.MIXG WORK. By Cable—Pre?* Association—CopyngHt London, January 27. There arc >!gns of the early collapse of tue coal iiiike Many malcontents are resuming woik, and the tree laborers, attracted by wages averaging 85s to 45s a week, are maintaining almost a normal supply. The union is ill-sup-plied .with funds.

The London Builders' Industries Federation resolved that all workers shajl vithdraw from jobs where builders have been discharged for not signing the agreement, '.the decision affects plumbers, i-r.tiu- driveis and others, though jh? masters never required them to sign tho agr dement

Received 2*o, 1 a.m. London, January 28. Coal firms deny that they have conceded tho strikers' demands, which would have brought the trade to the verge of bankruptcy. A FURTHER SECESSION London, January 27. The coal strikers at Clerkenwcll have accepted the penny rise, objecting to penalising good employers. DEMAXDS CONCEDED; London, January 27. The eoa! strikers will resume work to-morrow. The South London Coal Company and all the co-operative societies have conceded the penny rise, and other firms are following their example.

HARBOR TRUST BOYCOTTED. Melbourne, January 28. A conference of the engineers, boilermakers', shipwrights' and ironworkers" unions decided that members would refuse to work on any job for the Harbor Trust until claims for trade union conditions were recognised. PRINTERS' STRIKE ENDED. Launceston, January 28. The printers' strike has ended, terms having been arranged TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE.

SPECIAL LABOR CONFERENCE AT GLASGOW. London. January 27. - A special conference on the Labor Party's electoral Parliamentary policy has opened at Glasgow. Mr Ramsay Macdonald, UP., defended the parly's support of the Government, on the ground that they saw no re:'son to turn out tweedledum Cpr twcedk'dce. lie vehemently denied the existence of any secret bargains. It was the party's duty to support tie party making the best offer. The • onference, by a large majority, I approved of the party's policy.

AUCKLAND WATERSIDERS. By Telegraph.—ihess Association. Auckland, Yesterday. The members of the new Watersiders' Union complain that stevedore* arc ignoring tlie preference clause of their agreement with their employers. The executive of the union decided to provide a button for members entitled to preference of employment, to enable th.! stevedores to distinguish them when picking gangs. This< morning a number of members of the old union who were refused admittance to the new body entered the watersiders' rooms, and were ordered to have. After a little argu- . men! they did so.

MULTII'LICITY OF UNIONS. Auckland, Last Night. There are now two organisations of workers represented on the wharves. One, the. Waterside Workcra' Union, was formed of the arbitrationista during the recent strike, and is working under ;; duly registered agreement with the employers, Tli'; other; the Auckland Coal and Cargo Workers' Union, is said to include men who lmve been refused admittance to the first organisation, and who propose to apply to the Arbitration Court for an award. The Waterside Worker*' Union has been using the : watcrsideiV waiting-room as a place for its members to offer themselves for work, and the members of the Coal and Cargo Worker-' Union have asked the Harbor Heard to give them the same privilege. The. Harbor Board considered the application in committee, and, apparently, deemed it inadvisable that I members of the two unions should use the same premises. The Board resolved that in Hie meantime temporary accommodation be provided at the King's Wharf for the members of the Coal and Car».» Workers' Union, and that when the' Arbitral ion Court sits the Board oppo-r making the waiting-room the place where, labor is to be engaged for the union.

"WKI.UXCmY WATKRSIDKUS. | Wellington. Last Night. A meeting of members of the Wh.pf Laborers' I'liimi". presided over by P. Curtice, president of the old Waterside Workers' Cnion, to-night earried resolution.-; censuring the executive, of the lii-w union fur failing to c "' l,! meeting-, and calling upon them to eonvene a lreetiiiL' to i xplain tln-iv conduct and tender'their rc-ignations. Another resoi liilm,ii .-xpn-ed regret nl Hi" action of Ihe executive in continually fosteriu" a spirit of enmity between the old and new members of the union by the. Pre.-s controversy over the ipics- | (ion of preference.