Labour.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 8, 21 January 1905, Page 4

Labour.

'• St. Petembubo, January 18. The manager of the Putiloff ' works undertakes to enquire into e the case of the dismissal of unionit ista if the strikers resume work. 4 The Baku strike, owing to the < 3 masters’ concessions, has nearly /I d ended. At Yaroslav 12,000 shipbuilders . t from the Russian Gove mine t \ . yards have joined the Putiloff » strikers. I y The strikers stopped the comple* / • tion of the gunboats and submar- f ines. “ There are now 50,000 strikers at ' St. Petersburg. Berlin, January 18. , Up to the present 154,000 persons who are employed at 202 of e the Westphalian pits have struck. > The s rikers are terrorising the non-unionists at Dortmund. They stoned the police, who used their - swords. Sydney, January 18. s The coal-owners have signified '• that they are prepared to resume ’ work at once, but the miners require time to take a referendum ,on the Attorney-General’s proposal to resume work pending the a decision of the Arbitration Court. “ This will occnpy several days. ’ The hearing of the cases against the Newcastle wheelers was postJ poued on the application of the - Crown till Friday. C ounsel for the wheelers intimated that he ini’ tended te refuse to plead and so ' raise'the question of jurisdiction. ’ The general situation remains unchanged. The officials and em- ' ployees of the Federation meet tomorrow to discuss the AttorneyGeneral’s proposal to resume work. It is rumoured that they will submit a proposal to the miners’ delegate boards which, if adopted, will “ settle the strike in 24 hours. The ‘ opinion is expressed that the only . possible way to achieve this will be i for the miners to decline to sup- ’ port the wheelers, and this is improbable. , Coal at Newcastle is a shilling a ton higher. The freight has also ; advanced. ‘ At a meeting of the Miners’ [ Federation delegates of Newcastle, ; it was decided to ask the coal-owners to meet representatives of the ’ miners and wheelers in open con- / , ference as early as possible. An J aggregate meeting of wheelers also ’decided to return to work if the ■ reduction of wages is made 5 per ) \ cent., instead of 10 per cent, i , against which the wheelers had K struck. t A meeting of coal-owners will be held at Sydney to-morrow to discuss , the miners’ and wheelers’ offers , and other matters. The wheelers, in offering t 0 accept a 5 per cent, reduction, stipulate that the matter must come before the Arbitration Court within three weeks. xt Pwe,l ty'fiv e foreign vessels at Newcastle are awaiting coal. London. January 18. There are 175,000 strikers at the Westphalian mines.