LABOUR TROUBLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10609, 16 April 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

CABLE NI3WS

(United I'm* Astociati<m~-By %%»* i trie Telegraph—Copyright.)

ALL-ROUND MINIMUM WANTED

DERBYSHIRE SURFACEMEN RESUME.

(Received Last Nighty 10.50 o'clock.)

LONDON, April 15. A demonstration of shop assistants, barmen, bakers, and waitresses in Trafalgar Square carried a resolution asking the Government to establish a im.in.imum wage. The Derbyshire surfacemen have agreed to - resume. The Dundee jute strike has ended. The workers have obtained a 2£ per cent, advance.

STRIKE OF TRANSPORT WORKERS DENIED.

MINERS AND SOLDIERS FRATERNISE.

i ((Received April 15, 10 a.m.)

' LONDON, April 14. I Miners at Leigih, Lancashire, entertained the soldiers sent to main- _ tain order, the soldiers to-day mareh'ed to church headed by" the Leigh Naval and Army A 7 etera.ns' Band. Two hundred engine men at Bargoed, Glamorganshire, Wales, have resumed work. The engine men in the- Cwyman colliery at Aberdare, Wales, are resuming to-morrow. The. District Committee of the Transport Workers' Federation and the executive of the Dockers' Union passed a ■ resolution, denouncing irresponsible- statements regarding the possibility' of a general strike of transport workers early in the summer, and adding that' it was not intended to discuss the question.