PROFIT AND LOSS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 5

PROFIT AND LOSS.

STRIKES IN HARD CASH, • •■■-■[■ •■ ■ 1 FIGURES Or A DECADE. :;•.■" .- (Received 8 a.m.) LONDON, January 19. "The Board of Trade statistics, supplemented by the trades unions' returns, Bhow that the loss in wages by stoppages in ,10 organised industries, due to dis- . pntes of all kinds, in the past decade /.amount to £17,413,188. tL ;,'ll>e- net, gain in wages resulting from the-'disputes was £2,714,340, leaving a ■doss of £14,698,848; but the workers as ~i .whole obtained during the decade an ■jincrease of £15,000,000, chiefly through the Conciliation machinery and working .. igreements. ■Of every 100 strikes and lockouts ; during the decade, the employers won 50 and the workers 25, while 25 were compromised.

FRACAS IN DUBLIN. *

jJEeceived 9 a.m-) LONDON, January 19. . :- It is understood that Mr J. Larkin, > it a secret-meeting in Dublin, advised tliestrikers to resume, as the supplies of ;" money and food from England had prac- •; oodly ceasea, but he urged them not to vßgn.any agreements. Strikers made several attacks on free abonrers in Dublin, and one of the «ter died from a fractured skull.