TRADE & LABOUR NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 250, 19 October 1904, Page 10

TRADE & LABOUR NOTES.

ißy Industrial Tramp.) Th* , furniture trade i= still dull." Ironmoulding and allied trades are sJack. The building trade throughout the colony is -till dull. Local unskilled labour market is very inueh overstocked. Work generally speaking is fairly plentiful in the country districts, li is understood that the Arbitration <"nurl will not. sit in Auckland till after -to \,>w Year. The display of local industry on Labour Diiv was without doubt, the best seen >vdp<\v L.ibonr Council is organising :!.-■"jiieai. waggon and carcase drivers in- : i :i union. i>l) hours now constitute *-he V<ral working flay in Franc-. Four years a-j-o it was 12 hours. \r the cud <>t April laft the New South Wales Miners' Accident Relief Kund totalled £00,000. llutchers' Shop Employees' Union. with a membership of .SUO, ha* afiiliated v.iii! t!i" Sydney Labour Council. All I In- "branches of the Southern \.\V.i.\ report that everything points to an iiirrpa.«p iii membership t hi< year. Two hundred unions vera represent- ,.■: at the Trades' I'nion Congress held at Leeds. England, last September. |>port> received by the Sydney Operative Stonemasons' Society show that work in that trade id particularly slack iv ail the Slate?. The, Auckland rnitM Furniture Tradel nion. at its last meeting, voted one ■juiniM to the nm<l to send the stranded glass-blower* hack to England. i have reason to believr that, although •he labour celebration in the. Domain was hot a thandcririLT financial sucoffs. all prize money and expenses, etc.. will be n lid in full. By order of Ihe Allied Printing Trades' Council. Amerka. the union laHpl i» not to be used ou obscene Hteratu rp i' r nbjeft i o oubl c pi rtu re s. The Department of Commerce U collecting iri facilitate the Lrjris'sture in placing further restrictions ou jiiintiirration into tlic United States. In Switzcj-Land it has been found that in building a railway in hich country labourers could only work one-third as long a-t a height of 10.000 feet a< at a rn;lc lower down. i >y.o hy t>ne tln- people of the great American Kepublic arc being sliorn of ihrir rights and privilege*. The Pennsylvania" Legislature has passed a law prohibiting snoring in church. Mr. Arthur Rosser left Auckland for Wellington on Saturday last as a repreM'niative from the Auckland Trades and Labour Council, to give evidence re increased duty on "shoddy goods." Vll ihe miners who went <>n strike at ihe Collie Cardiff coal mine. Western Australia, were prosecuted for breaking ihr Arbitration Act. and were each lined 13. Urisbaneitcs can now enjoy Ihe pleasure of beine shaved or hairdrcsed by skilful union barbers. The newly formed union of tonsorial artists i= progressing nicply, and deserves every encouragement. " The officials connected with the Trades and Labour Council's Labour Day sports. L'-ld in the Domain <>n Lalwiur Day. worked very bard, under disadvantageous <ircumstaEces. and are *.o be congratulated on the success thereof. A meeting of unemployed Victorian coahnintTs. t, k-iirus of the Outtrim strike, passed the following resolution: "That this meeting resolves to bury the hatchet and let byjjonps be bygones as far as the hue strike is concerned."' The colliery proprietors ill the northern districts of X.S.W. have decided to reduce the selling prii-p of coal from January next. This will mean a further reduction in tlie already low hewing rates fur miner?, and will probably cause trouble unless the Arbitration Court can intervene and settle matters. Labour Day of this year will go down j ns one 1n be remembered owing to the ' fact that there wore two labour bodies j working in opposition to each other. The I richt or wrong of state of affairs >i.is already been discussed, so there is no necessity to say more than to express a hope that this condition of things will not cxi?t in any future Labour Day celebration. Trades unionist* in \>w South Wales liivr determined to interest themselves j in a practical manner with respect to I -■ir proposed five years" iron and steel j i-.intracr. which runs into about 50.000 j ions. An oiler was recently made by Mr Sandford to equip aji rxtpiisivo liiant at Lithgow for the manufacture! • ■:' iron and steel for railway purposes. | The proposal was considered by the SeeAVarldel <;overnment, and tenders were! ■■ailed for the work. Xo decision bavin? been arrived at. the Lithgow union-i-Ts arc urging the (iorernment to acCPpt the local tender. ]