Labor Matters

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 4 February 1914, Page 3

Labor Matters

'l'll 10 TEACHERS' STIIIKK. SUPPOKTKI.) I!Y PUPILS,'" GIRLS HOLD A STRIKE MEETING. By Cable—Press Ansociatipn—Copyright Jxindon, Felwuary 2. Fifty Herefordshire schools are closed and it is believed thirty jnore will be obliged to follow. The school girls at Ledbury took possession of the school rooms after morning lessons, overturned tho desks, spilt the ink and. wrote notices on the blackboards upholding the teachers on strike. Later the. larger girls, at a meeting in the playground, resolved to strikv, hustled the new mistress from Cue school, and guarded the doors. Nonstrikers entered through tho windows and free fig'lits resulted. The strikers held possession for tlie remainder of the afternoon.

THE NEW SOUTH. WALES CONFERENCE. MINISTER CENSURED. Sydney, February 3. The Labor Conference, by i)l votes :',o ."2. resolved that the penal clauses of the Industrial Arbitration Act be repealed, especially the clauses providing for garnishing men's wages. A motion censuring the Minister for Public Works for failing to have the State, and Federal Arbitration awards observed was postponed in order to give J[r. (iriflitli a chance of explaining his inaction. THE KIND'S EMi'LOVEES. ! FURTIki; CONCESSIONS. London. February 2. The King has arranged that laborers on his Sandringham and other estates shall receive a. Saturday iialf-boliday. with continuity of employment, raiit or shine, at a minimum of Ifts weekly, wiiicli is 2s above the rilling wage in the neighborhood. The majority already receive from 20s to 20s.

MELBOURNE WATEiI.SIDERS' STRIKE Melbourne, February 1. Stop-work meetings of the. Stevedores' and Wharf Laborers' Unions will ba held to-morrow to receive the reports of delegates to the late conference wit'u the steamship owners. JI the latter-re-fuse the demands th position is tluit the employees must present their claims for increases to the Arbitration Court.