LABOR CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1922, Page 5

LABOR CRISIS.

DISPUTE IN BRITAIN, MORE MEN IDLE. LOCK-OUT EXTENDED. By T«le£rapli.—Press Assn. —Copyright, Received April 23, 5.6 p.m. London, April 22. Negotiations have been broken off between the engineering employers and forty-seVen unions outside the amalgamated engineers, and the employers have ordered an extension of the lockout affecting 600,000 men. Correspondence published yesterday shows that the employers demanded that they be the sole judges as to what changes in managerial workshop practice should be effected. Without consulting the unions the workers’ negotiators expressed the opinion that no union could accept such a stipulation as a condition precedent to negotiations. They declare the employers have apparently decided to extend the lockout in order to bring the unions to heel. Dr. J. T. Macnamara (Minister for Labor) is conferring with the parties. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,

NEGOTIATIONS FAIL. AFFILIATED UNIONS EXERCISE PRESSURE. Received April 22, 5.5 p.m. London, April 21. The Amalgamated Engineers, and affiliated unions are negotiating separately to-day with the employers of the former. The negotiations broke down in the afternoon. A number of affiliated unions have threatened to break away from the Shipbuilding Trades Federation unless their negotiations reach a settlement within two days.

REPAIRS SENT ABROAD. Received April 22, 5.5 p.m. London, April 21. Owing to the shipyard stoppage, shipowners are sending their repair and fitting work abroad. The Cunarder, Laconia, has gone to Rotterdam from the Tyne for finishing.