WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 March 1914, Page 8

WORK AND WAGES.

TAXI-CAI! DRIVERS' UNION. llv Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Tuesday. Owing to the long hours which they arc compelled to work, an<l to the fact that they work seven days a week, with few chances of holidays, local tau drivers are about to form a union. TRAMWAY DISPUTE. ■" Wellington, Lust Night. The Welingtou tramways dispute was before the Conciliation Commissioner to-duy aild adjourned till the 20th, aa the City Council had not had an opportunity of considering the proposals. The union .secretary opposed the adjournment ami remarked that it appeared the commissioner was considering t.he employers' interests first, an observstion which .Mr. i[all v took c to as entirely unjustified. NAYAI-'S FIREMEN LEAVE TIIK VESSEL. SOME EXPLANATION NEEDED. Auckland, Last Night. A report is brought by the Navua. which arrived from the Eastern Pacific this morning that when at Suva on March 5, the firemen 1 waited upon the captain and demanded payment of their wages at once. T'ie men made the demand under a Bcction of their agreement with the Union Company. The captain considered, however, that the agreement did not ertitle the men to make such a demand, and gave them '.en miuUi"s to decide whether or not they would peacefully accept thi-';v wage* on the following' day. The men eventually agreed to take the course, suggested, and if. then appeavod thai no further trouble would arise. \\ hen the Navua had left Suva for Auckland on the following day. however. the whole seventeen firemen gav:' notice that they would leave the vessel when it arrived at Auckland. Accordingly. when the Navua berthed at th? Northern wharf this morning, the fire- j men left the ship in a body. The Union Company at once set about procuring other men to take the place of those leaving, and the steamer was able to sail for Wellington ibh evening at 8.30 with a full complement of firemen.