LABOR TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1919, Page 2

LABOR TROUBLES.

STRIKE EPIDEMIC DISCUSSED, London, Jan. 21. Tlie Engineering- and .Shipbuilding Employers' Federation this week discussed the industrial situation arising out of n|i epidemic of unauthorised strikes. 3Ur. Smith, secretary of the men's federation, censures tlu: malcontents who refuse to give the 47-hours week a fair trial as agreed by the vast majority of employees. He points oift that indiscriminate demands for 44 hours or less, even 30 hours, involve a most serious economic question, as the men demand the same pay as for 04 houfs. He urges an early return to enable consideration of grievances.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. YORKSHIRE MINERS OUT. London, Jan. 22, Two hundred thousand Yorkshire miners are out and every pit is idle. There is great alarm in thq Bradford wool industry—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BAKERS AGITATING ' London. Jan. 22. The takers are agitatin; .'or a national strike and the abolition of night work. —Aus, N.Z. Cable Assoe. WORK AND WAGES COAL TRIKE SETTLED. Received Jan. 24, 3.20 p.m. London, Jan. 23. The coal strike has been settled. A meal interval has been conceded in respect of each shift. DRIVERS' CONFERENCE. Wellington, Jan. 24. The drivers' conference concluded today without any settlement being arrived af.