LABOUR TROUBLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3197, 25 May 1909, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

MINERS' EIGHT HOURS ACT. A LOCK OUT THREATENED. Received May 24, 8.2 a.m. LONDON, May 23. The coal owners have announced, at a meeting of the South Wales Conciliation Board, that it is their intention to serve a month's notice tu workers in the mines on the Ist June, in connection with the coming into operation of the Mines (Eight Hours) Act to terminate all contracts. This action will involve a lock-out of a hundred and fifty thousand miners at the end of June, unless a settlement is effected. The decision of Lord St. Aldwyn, formerly Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in the case of the Welsh collieries, reduces miners' wages 7& per cent. BROKEN HILL STRIKE. DECLARED OFF. Received May 24, 10.13 a.m. SYDNEY, May i' 4. The Broken Hill strike has been declared off. The pickets have been withdrawn, and the men will return to work" this morning. The Combined Unions gave Tom Mann a wepk's notice of the termination of his engagement as organiser. Mann, speaking at a meeting, commenced dramatically by sayii g that after the triumphant entry into Jerusalem there came the Crucifixion. A fortnight back he entered Broken Hill, and was carried shoulder high; now they wanted to crucify him. But he would not be driven out of Australia —he would not be kicked about or insulted.