LABOUR TROUBLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10089, 12 September 1910, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

THE BOILER-MAKERS' LOC£-OUJ'. RESULT OF BALLOT. Received September 10, 10.20 a.rc. LONDON, September 9. The result of the ballot at the northern ports was that 10,321 voted were cast in favour of, anci 5431 adverse to, the executive positien. The majority empowers the executive to call a representative meeting. Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock. LONDON, September 10. The newspapers reraM the fact that the Edinburgh agreement was accepted after a pooled vote of shipyard Trades Unions. A majority of the boliermakera were then opposed ti the; agreement. The boilermakers have, it is stated, earned higher wages than those paid to an; other cJasti of maiual labourers, Riveters have earned as high as 120s and 140s per week. Three thousand six hundred boiler' makers did not vote at the ballot. It is stated that the employers are prepared to continue the. lock-out for six month?, if necessaiy. They are standing firmly to the principle of a working agrpement,. and to the necessity for abiding by. that agreement. The newspapers universally deplore the result of ihi ballot, claiming that it involves a grave outlook for Trades Unionism by encouraging a mutinous spirit. Later The majority in the ballot came from Clyda and North-east Coast workers. The "minority were principally employees in Government yards and in inland towns. The Executive does not regard the vote as one of want of confidence. It interprets it as a desire on the part of the men to be consulted. The Chronicle declares that the smallnesa of the ballot denotes the sullen, dangerous mood of the workers. Several lodges declined to vote, owing to the absence of information regarding the i ature of the assurances it was proposed to give tha employers. Serious protests have been made against the Clyde owners' official announcement that no lock-out money would be paid this week. The Executive possess a right to retain a sufficient reserve when the funds are below £2 per member, as at present. JMr Henderson, M.P. for Durham, in an interview, said he failed to see what the men hoped to gain by their unfortunate attitude. The Edinburgh agreemsnt was, he said, sullenly acquiesced in at the conclusion of a long strike. The briskness of trade had now incited many to seize the opp rtunity of getting "quits" with the employers.