Labor Matters

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 186, 5 February 1914, Page 5

Labor Matters

THE TEACHERS' STRIKE.

ADDITIONAL SCHOOLS CLOSED. AS UNHAPPY VICAR. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 4, 5.30 p.m. London, February 3. Additional schools have been closed in Herefordshire. The services of a sergeant of police were neessary at Bromyard to Ret the lads from school. In another town, the vicar opened the school, but the scholars gave him such an unhappy time that he abandoned the self-imposed task of teaching 1 .

SOUTH WALES MINERS.

DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS.

Received 4, 11.30 p.m. London, February 3. j The South Wales Miners' Federation at Cardiff, insist that the workmen have the same right to institute proceedings for breaches of the regulations against officials as the latter'have to prosecute the workmen. Thev decided to renew the attack upon the employment of non-unionists and condemned the criminal abuse of martial law in South Africa, and demanded a return of the deporteds..

T'.URAL DISPUTE} EXAGGERATED.

NO FEAR OF AN UPHEAVAL. Received 4, 2.30 p.m. .Sydney, February 4. Mr. Brayndlcr, secretary of the' General Workers' Union, considers the report of serious trouble among the rural workers and primary producers in country centres is grossly misleading. There is no danger of any great industral upheaval so far as the members are concerned. Neither is there anv fear of country supplies failing to reach the city. The whole trouble is practically ever till next year, the men having been paid the rates asked for.