LABOUR UNREST.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 207, 29 August 1912, Page 5

LABOUR UNREST.

WELSH COLLIERS' STRIKE DEDUCTION FROM WAGES. MINERS' ACCIDENT CUSTOM. -(By Cable.— AmodaOoih—CopyaetA.i LONDON, August 28. Four thousand men have struck at the Glamorgan collieries in Khondda district owing to deductions made from their wages for leaving the pit in accordance with the custom on the occasion of fatal accidents. The men contend that the payment of a minimum wage ought not to affect the custom. The masters maintain that an appeal to the Conciliation Board ought to precede a strike. LABOUR AND DYNAMITE. LW.W. METHODS. "SOMEBODY PUT IT THERE" NEW YORK, August 28. An important investigation has opened at Boston regarding the «se of dynamite by labour organisations. The investigation was undertaken at the request of a grand jury sitting on a ease in which many officers of the I-W.W. employed at the Lawrence Mills, where a strike occurred recently, are implicated in the concealment of a largo amount of dynamite. The Industrial Workers of the World organisation has issued a manifesto declaring that the dynamite was planted at the men's residences by agents provocateurs. r STRIKERS AND THEIR PAY. LONDON, August 28. A number of railway men, who after being dismissed for participating in strikes, were engaged by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants as a correal staff at 30/ a week to deal with the extra work occasioned by the coming into operation of the National Insurance" i Act, threatened to strike because they have not received the minimum wage of 35/ a week recognised by the National Union of Clerks. LUMPERS' STRIKE PALLS. TORONTO, August 28. The strike of Toronto longshoremen for higher wages has been called off, the men being defeated. *500 FROM BROKEN HILL. (Received 10.15 ajn.) I' SYDNEY, this day. The Broken Hill Miners' Association has voted £ 500 to the Waihi strikers. ■' I