LABOUR TROUBLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10525, 12 January 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

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(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

THE COTTON WEAVERS A NON-UNIONIST'S FATE. (Received This Morning, 11.5 o'clock.) LONDON, January 11. Miss Bury, a non-unionist weaver, was hounded out of Great Hartwood, and her ofiigy was burned. The strike at Great Hartwood was duo to her employment.

WOOL COMBERS

DECIDED TO RESUME WORK

(Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, January 11. The wool-combers have decided to resume at the masters' terms.

TRADE UNION LEADER'S MISTAKE.

(Received January 11, 9.40 a.m.)

LONDON, January 10, The Westminster (Gazette ' states that when, the Trade Union leaders started the cotton strike in two sheds tttiey did not expect the employers to Ibck our 160.00u men. They : now realise their, mistake, and are.'anxious to get out of the difficulty by a proposed s cret agreement with the masters regarding the employment of non-Unionists. The masters have refused to take this step.

MINERS' DEMANDS

THE MINIMUM WAGE

(Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, January 11

The Northumberland coat o-vyifiers,. in a manifesto, declare that, to fix the minimum wage irrespective of the work performed, is impracticable < and they are unable to concede, believihg in paying proportdoniaitely with the work. Mr Enock Edwards, who is hopeful of a solution of the dispute, denies the existence of an agreement for a simulr taneous strike in germany.

IN EVENT OF M STRIKE.

(Received January 11, 9.10 a.m.): J

LONDON, January 10.. . The Daily Chronicle states that in the event of a British strike the German colliers, will strike simultaneMr' Simillie, nre&ident of the Scottish Miners' Federation,- .at a mas® •meeting... at Lanarkshire,- stated that he told Mr Winston COrarclnfl, First. Lord of the Admiralty, at a conference, that if there" waft -a colliery strike tllie railwovs would -stop with*; on a fortnight and the Dreadnoughts would be scrap-iron in. six week* Mr Churchil replied that-the Orovemment would pass a Bill to prevent Mir Smil'lie continued that if there iwqs a general stoppage it would force the to believe that the industry was too important tor pnv-r ate ownership. ;.

GREAT. STM— PREDICTED.

GOING OUT IN MILLIONS

(Received January 11, H a.m.)

. LONDON, ,Tn,miary- 10., ,1 Mr Ohas. renwick. M.P., at a) meeting of Northumberland iranerM said he feared that in the midst oH the present unrest the men were he-' ine carried awav bv mere °pbrases. Mr F. Haslam, M.P. for 'Chesterfield, told an interviewer that, the Derbv Miners-' ■ Association was- anxious 'to avioid a strike." and had reduced its demands considerably ; nev- , eTthelesK. appearances threatened one Cu the biggest st»rv.<rgk« ever known. At first a"™ I !'ion men. would go out, and they would be- followed hy 1 another million.

COLLIERY IDLE. (Received January 11, 10.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 10. Notwithstanding his recent speech, declaring that he would make efforts to inaugurate industrial peace, Mr Brown's Pelawmain colliery is idle through a strike of clippers, who are dissatisfied over the dismissal of two of their number;' ■ ..,..„,.,. Eight hundred men are affected.