LABOUR TROUBLES.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2032, 26 March 1913, Page 2

LABOUR TROUBLES.

COAL MEN TIRED OF WAITING

THE i-.L.l'. CONFERENCE. THE SYDNEY STRIKE. BY ELECTBIO TEIiEG.UPH—OOPYBIGHT. ) tl; PBESS ASSOCIATION. Sydney, March 25. The .southern coal strike position is unaltered. The men are getting restive. (Received .March 2(j,- 9.15 a.m.) 'London, March 25. At the independent labour conference at Manchester. Mr Kc-ir Hardie was passed that the party should wa.s elected chairman. A resolution oppose al leiec-toral reform until the Government introduced franchise for women.

(Received March 26, 9.50 a.m.) ~,. Sydney, March 26. Xhere are signs of a settlement of tno k-rry .strike. The parties conerred late ia*t night, when the following bases of agreement were suggested: a UG hours' fortnight, on days other than Sundays and gazetted public holidays, the weekly payto botbe same as now paid ,for a 60 louivs week, overtime to bo paid lor mghtiy f<,,. Sundays and holidays a'ld overtime at. the rate of time ;iud a hall; twelve hours to be tho longest continuous shift vll Sundays jiiid holidays, on ordinary days no ,m "ri felX r more iioui-s; all employees to be reinstat«i. All the.se terras were accental except, the 96 hour, fortnight P s£ employers substituting 108 lJours, lhe Unions representative rejected the alteration and the conference emanated, but will be resumed £! frill nl " tho r Hou - Mr Carxnichael "'ffe a slight modification be-