TRADE & LABOUR NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 270, 11 November 1908, Page 7

TRADE & LABOUR NOTES.

gKretaxies of the varions Cnions are Jraisted to forward copies of their Union ,iis;ments to •■lndustrial Tramp," - ---icja.-" office, and a list of Colon Meetwin be furnished at the head of this fPIuBD for e2ci weekj pjCOX MEETINGS FOR THE •VTESK. i Qβ Evening. 11 — Tiadea and Libour Council. i mirsdiir. Nov. 12 - Kncine Drivers. rjday, >'<>«■■ a:; — t'ornllure Trades; ShipwriglK*; Brewery Hmployee*, aud derated Water 'Workers. Vjuday, .Nor. Iβ — ( v >u.irrrmrn. Sly, Nov. IT - IMumhers: Moulders. ya'DPsday, >""v. 1* - Waterside W oilier*. Arbitration <. ouit open* in Grey mouth E3 h, Wednesday, November IS. One ot the most rciiabk , union, direcories is Brett'* Almanac, published anmallv. It amongst other items <finformation, a complete li.-t of employ-, β-s , and employees' unions in tho Auck)id provincial di*%rvt. li is now heva? ' ompiled for IDOP, nnd with a view of Stinging it up-to-date, the unions arc r"ed to forward to "Industrial Tramp"' he uanies of their presidents and socrearies. along with their addresses, for Hiblication in the 1'.>09 volume-. It is lso desirable to make tlio directory as ompletc as possible, by adding the place jid time oi meeting of the union, such s: the second Friday in the month, or ortnightly on Tuesday, as the case may *•. .Ul information must reach mc not ater than December 1. 'Another matter I would like to bring under the notice of the secretaries ot the unions is that I have endeavoured for some time past to give, at the head of this eolunm. from -week to week, notice of union meetings occurring during the current week. My dates for 190S will soon ran out, and I invite all secretaries of employers' as well as workers' unions, trho desire their members to be reminded of their engagements, to post to mc a copy of their dates of meetings for 1900. At the last two meetings qf the Auckland Bricklayers' Union considerable discussion took place over the recent, decision of the Arbitration Court re the repairing of the brick kiln at Avondale. In clause 2, sub-clause (b) of the bricklayers' award, it states: "All bricklayers shall be paid at the rate of time and aquarter for repairing boilers and furnace work of any description.' , A local contractor had the job of repairing a brick kiln at Avondale, and the workers' union contended that the pay should be at time and a-quarter, being repair work. The employer refused t 0 pay the extra mouey. on the ground that the clause quoted referred to repairs done while the furnace was hot, or dirty, whereas this was practically new work;, hence the interpretation asked for and subsequent decision, in which the Court upheld the contractor. The Union has received t.hu decision with murh dissatisfaction, and consider it as an injustice to the members. The clause was drafted by the Union and accepted by the Court, and ii shows how easy it is j to read into the clause a meaning that I was never contemplated by the fra.mers. j of- the section. It is only fair to point out that the interpretation is fn respect of that job only, and does not affect the award in its application to repair-work generally in the district. Practically every foreign country of standing- industrially has' recognised by legislation-the principle that the workman is entitled to compensation for '»- juries received in the line of duty. Twen-ty-two foreign Stat.es or Gorprnaien '. a hsve passed such enactments. They arv. 'Austria. Belgium. British Columbia. Cape of Good Hope, Denmark. Finland. France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy. Luxemburg. Netherlands, Xew Zealand, Russia. South Australia, Spain. Sweden and Western Australia. Broken liilJ, where the mining depression exists, has lost 5300 of its population since January. The number of miners employed has fallen in one year from 10,030 to 6.752. The Saturday half-holiday i= becoming very general in the larger towns in Queensland. Toe Rev. J. E. Carruthers. who has neeatly returned to Sydney from a prolonged -visit in the Old Country, says that "to one of two issues it. seems dear that England is inevitably committed—either evolutionary Socialism or re- . vohiticmary Socialism,"" For the first time in the history of Turkey, a woman has delivered a speech to a crowd in the street, and now we near of the formation of a committee ef iadies called together to collect mouf y lor the repatriation of exiles. _ Lodi (California) barbers are agitatn S ii° r a Sunday rest day. They are i&ehr to com« to an agreement to" that end. inw >eni3ion hmd cf the Int ernaiionai ■Typographical Union now amounts to •52-6434 dollars. The Affis-Chalmers Company of .Milwaukee, which was fined 4.000 dollars °) Judge Landis for importing four iron winders from England, has received the teaaon from the United States Circuit v-ourt, to which appeal was made nearly years ago. wherein the tine imposed oy Judge Landis i≤ upheld and will have ! w be paid. 1 Apropos of the demand of the Anr-fc-«M takers' Union for daylight baking before the Conciliation Board, the iWiowiDg by a contemporary is of interft--- Ihe Perth baiers' strike has been . 2*"* ofF V the union, on a vote of ' :'«*34. Most of the men have secured two co-operative bakeries— »em Ferth and the other in Fremantlr awLj n ?°*! ty of Pm P ~e re not wen* to dayhght work, for which the the""l ° n ?trike ' but Teiu^d to ad °Pt freely had the Perth thf\- J ? een dedared ofT »«»« ™« BuUgooi-Jie baker, create cn- nnernabott in Lnifin n ; £ the rPrth bikers harii ' *« fightmjs. Some thre,, months ag.. afritation 'T tho system, both , awrtband Kalgoorlie. d.iylight baking ] tUted in lho latt, ' r l " w ° The 3°irth agreed tO all ° W thp work to • in ti, e morni instead f g After a month's trial, at Kγ wTafr °/ the mcD th * sUrfi "g I S tt t emplDrers - this tiffle to Put the XSftoT back tO They J 2i°.. d » so. nence the strike. The t Sγ 1 uioS-r 011 -disapproved by the ] tteSTft^ *• there is only one way to r te V + • must su PPort us—all of , to'har ° Ue TVOman he happens " and Z\ marrled ' bu t all of us. Sisters &S£Z d C T nS > **?*, and spins- t »■ lot nf T B ' TOe want ™om and i *£*n? t0 4 eara them for ourselves, •S w^7 6 t0 we tides and i