LABOR TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 February 1917, Page 5

LABOR TROUBLES.

THE "GO SLOW" POLICY. By Telegrapli.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. It was statedj to-day by one of the Auckland coal-mining companies that the "go slow" policy, as sworn to before the Military Service Board at Hamilton, had been evident to the management for quite a fortnight past. The retsHction o: the output amounts to a falling-off of M 0 to 150 ions a day in each of three mines in the district, and actually about 350 tons a day foi the district. Local representatives of the companies resent the suggestion that there was need for such a policy in order to torce the owners to agree to a conference, as they had made it clear they were willing to concede it, provided the. Federation's aims were first formulated. STRIKES ATIiEEZIXfi WORKS. Auckland, Last Night. About forty of the freezing chamber hands employed by the Auckland Farmers' Freezing at Southdown and ilorotiu, and the Wcstfield Freezing Company, Westfieid, are on strike. The men recently submitted demands as the basis for a new agreement, representing an increase of wages. Theso the employers considered unreasonable, as they already are paying more than is paid for the work in other parts of the Dominion.

FLI-KEELO is the only insect powder manufactured in New Zealand by Britishers. 'NO FLIES CAN" LIVE where FLI-KEELO is used. Flies carry diseass. FLI-KEELO kills flies. Obtainable from all chemists and storeIn one of the large munition factories in England, where 1000 women are employed, eacli is provided with a cap and rubber gloves as a protection against the effect of the chemicals that are used in the manufacture of explosives. A letter recently received from a. visitor to the factory states that notwithstanding the protection Afforded by the caps , the hair of the whole 1000 workers has been turned a bright red through the action of the chemicals. BEGIN TREATMENT AT ONCE. Have you a weak throat V If so, you cannot be too careful. You cannot begin teratme'nt too early. > "Each cold makes you more liable to another, and the last is always the harder to cure. If yon will take Chamberlain's Cough Keemdy at the outset you will-be saved much trouble. oven where,