LABOUR TROUBLES,

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 March 1913, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES,

CABLE NEWS

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

COOKS' STRIKE SPREADING. WEST END HOTELS AFFECTED. (Received March .17, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. The cooks' strike has spread to several West End hotels. The Lr:terion has engaged a fresh stall'. [Fifty cooks in the Criterion- Restaurant struck dn the customers' nresenee, as the management had been disregarding the Shops* Act.]

A.ALKUICAN GARMENT WORKERS.

INCREASED WAGES GRANTED

(Received March 17, 9.30 a.m.) BOSTON, March 16. Tho garni out workers have resumed. Tho increases in wages were granted. Ten thousand workers are affected.

TROUBLE ABOUT AN liNSPEC- *. TOBSHIP. OUTLOOK OMINOUS. (Received March 17, 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 17. TJie outlook in the southern' mining districts is ominous. An industrial inspectorship which it was understood ,jvas to he given to Mr Russell, a dismissed Mount Ke-rn-hla miner, lias been given to another. It is .believed the miners will now fight the Russell trouble to a finish. TAXI-CAB STRIKERS. (Received March 17, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. The taxi-cab strikers by 4754 to 74 rejected the British Motor Cab Company's offer for thie cheaper petrol mixture. The chief reason is that those remaining loyal are not to be discharged. A WIN FOR THE MEN. (Received March 17, 1 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. As a result of negotiation.?, the British Motor Cab Company has accepted the men's terms of eightpence per gallon lor tho mixture, and all strikers ys r err> rei-.v-titer.! and the loyal men discharged.

MIXERS ON STRIKE. QUESTION VsV AN APPOINTMENT. (Received Las- 1 . -Night. 9.10 o'clock.) SYDNEY,. March 17. The. fyntb C'W-'t coal makers,' excent the Mnu"f Keira and Mount Kemh'-i :nlp""; have struck because Mr WaiK'b V"- b-p-n anrminted IndnsHal j— - J -<- ef Mr Russell, When ~* r " I?ii'!--?!1 dismissed, .she amtnti-Ti -.irr"-/\ r>>irt the Royal Commission n-•-•"•--in t~-'l to to into the matter f"""i t'»»+. M- Russell had not broke + h ■■ v..i]», wh'ch it was alleged lie Md J rokr"t # The Oonrpam- refused to.reinstate Mr R.ussel!. a fvesh outbreak was threatened, until th? Hon. A. C. Cn rmlchael addrc.s>s o d the miners, who pot the impression that'Mr Russell was certain t". V< appointed inspector. Mr Carmichael savs he informed the miners' deputations that the best man would be appointed. He did not control the aniiointment, winch rested with the Public Service Board. THE ARBITRATION ACT. COST OF ADMINISTRATION. (Received Last ■SYDNEY, March 17. Mr Justice Heydbn, speaking in the Industrial Court, said the cost of administrat tog the Arbitration Act was enormous. He warned the Unions that, the situation was really seri. ou«. "It is verv important to prevent strikes," he- said, "and .settle conditions peacefully; but if it does not prevent strikes and. and tti© cost becomes too heavy, whole system may break down. The public may think the price top .great, and that it is o-oino; from the frving pan into the fire."