GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10292, 21 July 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

LABOUR TROUBLES

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

(Received July 20, 8.35 a.m.)

OTTAWA, July 19.

The Vancouver strike of four thousand Unionists' in sympathy with the carpenters has ended, and the men have returned to work on the employers' terms.

BRISBANE, July 20

The Carters' Union at Bundaberg decided not to handle non-union sugar. A large number of recently imported navvies engaged on the Great Western Railway extension have struck for higher'wages, and work has stopped.

MELBOURNE, July 20. The drapers' wages board award reduced the hours from fifty to fortyeight weekly, and increased the wages of men from 50s to 58s, and of. women from 27s 6d to 30s.

BRISBANE, July 20. Mr Crawford, Member for Fitzroy, has announced that he has been expelled from the Labour Party because of his attitude in supporting the Religious Instruction Bill.

SYDNEY, July 20. Before the Shortage of Labour Commission, the assistant Government architect stated in evidence that a number of large public works had been delayed through the scarcity of labour.

Mr Beeby. Minister of Labour in New South Wales, declined to accede to the request*of a deputation from the Dairy Farmers' Conference to strike out of the Industrial Dispute Bill the clauses affecting the rural worker.

The deputation claimed that other industries could pass on the increased cost to consumers, but the price of butter could not be raised. They also, strongly resented the charges of child slavery in dairying districts. MELBOURNE, July 20. Mr Hughes, as president of the Waterside Workers' Union, has announced that the Wharf Labourers' and Seamen's Unions had decided not to handle non-Union. sugar during the currency of the Queensland strike. All sugar will be handled to the 18th inst., however.

Shipowners view the position with grave concern. ■ The present stocks of sugar in Melbourne will last six weeks.