LABOUR TROUBLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10305, 4 August 1911, Page 3

LABOUR TROUBLES.

THE DOCKERS' STRIKE

(Received August 3, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, August 2. The shipowners are ready to sub-i mit the dockers' dispute to arbitration. . ' There are. fourteen thousand dock- ! ers in .the London strike, due.to., {the , Port ; qf,. .London, Authority , e mpJoyfi;j ees receiving a rise to sevenpence'per | hour, and" the shipping compjanies' i employees, who long ago received' seyenpenee, now claiming an al ;peniry.,' The •Unio'p. officials did jnqt' desire to strike, but the rank'and s file: 1 are repudiating the officials' promise to submit to arbitration.

MEXICO CITY, Wednesday. Proclamations offering three thousand pesos for the • - assassination of Frank Jenkins, William Jenkins and James Dunn, English mine experts, have l>een circulated in connection with the strike at the El Oro mines. Bombs have been found in the mines. '< An appeal has been made to the Government to suppress the lawlessness.

LONDON, August 3. The Rippingham Grange, with.five hundred emigrants for Australia, is due to sail on Thursday, but owing to the London dockers! strike she is unable to complete her loading. <-.:• . ~ : SYDNEY, August 3. : Before the Labour. Commission a woman, in evidence, stated thai, she had received threepence each for making nightgowns.' She found her own .cotton. .-.'.. The new agreement between the Wharf Labourers' Union and the Steamship Owners' Federation, is now operating. It reduces the working hours from forty-eight to forty-seven weekly, with extra pay for meal times, and overtime after midday on Saturday. The Lithgow strike continues pending a meeting of the Arbitration Board. The cane cutters' strike at MacLean has ended, the Company having granted the men's demands. HOBART, August 2. The carters' strike continues. The men to-day will consider the concessions offered by tho employers. BRISBANE, August 3. Nine men, including a strike organiser, have been arrested in connection with the disturbance at Childers. Three men were arrested at Cairns as the outcome of the strikers' demonstration*. The waterside workers are enforcing their decision not to handle non-union sugar.