ITALY'S TROUBLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 228, 23 September 1920, Page 5

ITALY'S TROUBLES.

DICTATING A SETTLEMENT. PREMIER'S FORCEFUL METHOD (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONTJOX, September 22. The correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" at Milan, states that the I'rimo Minister, Signer Giolitti. by an imperative act of authority, settled the crisis in the metal industry. After watching for three hours n fruitless debate between representatives of the employers and the workers, Signor (Jiolitti stated that he felt in duty bound and strong enough to impose a solution. He decided that the employers should abstain from punishing or dismissing any of the employees, that all workmen and members of the administrative sjtalTs should be retained, and that any ease of incompatibility should be judged by a commission of two delegates from both sides. > Signor Crispi, on behalf of the employers, said that ho must defer to tlie head of the Government. The new concordat secures for workers over 20 years an advance of one shilling a day, and for women and youths an advance of nincnence. The grant is to cover dear living, and cannot be touched until prices fall by 70 per cent. All employees with a year's service nre to be entitled to a six days' holiday a year, witli full wages. The strikers will he paid the new wages as from the middle of July.— (A. and N.Z.)