LABOUR TROUBLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10531, 18 January 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

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RtCENT COTTON STRIKE THE MASTERS' PROPOSAL. ! j (Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.) ' LONDON, January 17. The cotton masters propose that, if at the end of the half year's truce Sir G. R.' Arkwith has failed to find a solution of the' non-unionist question, the machinery shall! not he stopped without six monhs' notice. The masters' proposal will he submitted to the operatives forthwith. It is calculated that the stoppage will cost £6,000,0tt). The trade unionists spent £200,000 and the spinners £243,000. Professor Chapman F. Marquis, at the Statistical Society, read a paper •which showed that between 60 and 80 per cent, of the cotton masters began life a* operatives or clerks. RABBIT TRAPPERS. CAUSE OF THE STRIKE. (.Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) SYDNEY, January 17. The President of the Babbit Trappers' Union declares thatth' 1 recent trouble was due to the operations of a rabbit combi-ie. The Union intended to urge the Government to establish factories in .order to smash the ccmlbine. IRON WORKERS. CONFERENCE AT PERTH. (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) PERTH, January 17. A conference of engineers, boilermakers, and iron-moulders with the Parliamentary Labour Party was ■ abortive, the Parliamentarians declining to acquiesce in the Union's refusal of the Government's offer of an •increase of sixpence per day.