LABOR UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1919, Page 7

LABOR UNREST

UNAUTHORISED STRHCES. DEPLORED BY TRADE UNIONISTS. London, Feb. 13. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress has issued a manifesto deploring the unauthorised strikes, which undermine the fundamental principle of collective bargaining.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LABOR CONFERENCE. London, Feb. 13. The International Labor Commission decided at the Labor conference that representatives of the Government's employees and workers ."re entitled to speak and vote independently without regard to the views expressed by other representatives of their nations. This introduces ah entirely new principle in the constitution of international conference, with powers to draw up conventions finding on the states. Hitherto the voting has always been by nations. In future the labor conferences are to jmeet at the capital of the League of Nations, unless a two-thirds majority decide tc meet elsewhere. The office of the governing body will also be located at the League's capital.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MINERS' AbvISED TO STRIKE. London, Feb. 13. The Miners' Conference adopted the executive's ballot resolution, adding: "We strongly urge members to v te in favour of national stoppage until our demands are concluded." The ballot is returnable on the twenty-seventh. If the ballot supports a strike notices will be given for March 15. The National Federation of Building Trades Operatives are demanding a 44hours week. Already big increases have been granted, masons, carpenters and bricklayers receiving la 8d per hour, painters Is 6d, labourers la 6d, compared with Is Old, 9d, and 8d prior to the war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.