WORK AND WAGES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10511, 27 December 1911, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES

A RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE. i (United Press Association — By Elez* \ trie Telegraph — Copyright.; j (Received December 25, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 24. j Til© noii,-unionist difficulty arose m tSlie Nelson Clolne district owing to] the Weavers' Union) declining to recognise a separate trade union which the Roman Catholics had created in consequence of a secularist resolution: adopted at the Trades Union Congress. '. TRADE UNION PLANS. (Received Dece-mbea- 26, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, December 25. Owing to the Lancashirie lock-out, a sub-committee of the General Federation of T*-ade Unions wilil shor% consider the calling out of all' members of the unions not- involved in the- dispute 1 , or the establishment of a righting fund to meet future similar emergencies in any girai trade.

DUNDEE STRIKE SETTLED.

INTERNATIONAL TROUBLE ] THREATENED. I LONDON, December 24. Tlie Diimuee strike has "beea sett- { led. The carters' mimAnrum wage lias ibeen advanced two shillings weekly,

rnndi tlhe dockers by a halfpenny an jhbur. LONDON, December 23. The transport workers have blocked cargo for Dundee at Leith, Hull, Grangemouth, and Ldverpoo'l. Tttie shipping firms are arguing tihat the doners' strike i& now national, and have withdrawn their proposed terms of compromise. The dockers have replied that this decision, may possiMy lead to an international strike. Sir G. R. Askwith, of the Labour Departaneait of the Board of Trade, IB to mediate in the trouble. LONDON, December 22. Thirty of the mills, at Dundee l have been, closed, owing to the absence of coal. Thirty thousand employees aire idiLe. Rioting took place to-day. Tlw police made baton charges. FREMANTLE LUMPERS' STRIKE PERTH, December 2T. The coal lumpers' strike at Freuuantl/e continues and the wharves are idle.

NEWCASTLE STRIKE ENDS.

LONDON, December 25. The Newcastle carters' strike has been settled on the basis of' a shilling a week advance. MINERS' MINIMUM WACE. " ;, „ The Times declares that the mihr ers' demand for a minimum wage is one of thie untoward results- of the leight-hour system, under which the meni are now earning Ttesß than formerly.

SYDNEY TRAMWAYMfc-.'S

WAGES.

SYDNEY, December 24

The increase in tlbe oity tramway-, imeai'6 wages,: ifepresenta- -an annuaM increase of £70,000 in the expemdi- j tare.