Labour Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 271, 18 October 1902, Page 4

Labour Items.

New York, October 14. Mr Pierpont Morgan has induced the coal-owners to arrange with President Roosevelt for the appointment of a Commission to deal with all Unionist and non-Unionist disputes, provided work is resumed immediately, the Commission's decision to be binding for three years. October 15. The coal-owners stipulate that the Strike Commission shall consißt of an army or naval engineer officer, an expert mining engineer, a Supreme Court Judge, an eminent sociologist, and a person familiar with mining and selling coal. The coal-owners assert that 20,000 miners are working. Mr Mitchell, president of the Miner's Union, states that he is powerless to accept the proposed commission until the Miners' Convention has been consulted.

The newspapers anticipate a difficulty owing to the non-recogni-tion of the Miners' Union. October 14. Mr Mitchell, president of the Miners' Union, after a long interview with President Roosevelt, lhas convened a joint meeting of the [Executive Boards of the United Miners' Union for to-day. ! Mr Elihu Root states that it is necessary to clear away some of the obstacles before the proposed Commission is appointed, but he believes that they are removable.

Official. —The American miners' strike has ended. Brussels, October 14. Local strikes have occurred in Belgian collieries in sympathy with the French strikers. The men ask for an advance of 15 per cent in their wages. Paris, October 15. Five hundred French strikers attacked a party of Belgians while going to work at a colliery inside the French frontier. The Gendarmes were powerless to protect the miners, but the Belgian mounted police crossed the frontier and gharged with drawn swords. Many of the strikers were wounded. Numbers of fellow-organisations have joined the strikers.