WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1919, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

RAILWAY MEN DEMAND INCREASED WAGES. OTHER TRADES AFFECTED. Sydney, May 24. The Amalgamated Engineers employed on the railways are demanding increased wages. The grocery employees are making the same demand with a threat that if it is not granted 24 hours' notice of a strike will be given, A Ways and Means Committee appointed by the Broken Hill strikers, sent circulars to various organisations in Australia and New Zealand announcing that the miners at Broken Hill had decided to strike to obtain conditions to enable them to live as human beings. The principal demands are a six hours' day, a five days' week, abolition of night shifts and contacts, compensation for occupational dis- ; eases, and a living wage. It is anticipated the .struggle will last some months. The watersiders are holding a mas 3 meeting to-day to discuss the strike situation. The crews of all inter-State coastal vessels arriving yesterday gave notice. Melbourne, May 24. The strike has spread to the wheat stacks at Brooklyn, whej'e the unionists I drove the loyalists from the yards. All I work, including the shipment of wheat | for the Imperial Government, is suspended. The policy of terrorism is spreading, i three more loyalists being severely handled and the homes of several others attacked. A hundred special constables have been sworn in. The Federal president of the Returned Soldiers' and Sailors' League sent a message to the members emphasising the necessity of abstaining from active participation in any industrial dispute and calling upon members to support constituted authority and maintaining law and order. TRAMWAY DISPUTE. Auckland, last Night. There are no fresh developments, in connection with the tramways dispute, and the Officers' Union meets to-morrow night to discuss the future action of the men, who declare that they are deter-1 mined to secure Tshat tSiey consider just treatment jhamJa», orfft-'the . «omg«»r ~ f"'-'w—' —'