LABOUR MATTERS

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17016, 13 December 1920, Page 7

LABOUR MATTERS

REDUCTION OF WAGES. (Br Cable—Press A c oe:V,ior. —Copyright-) . (Reuter'. Tek-gTams.) I NEW YORK, December 9. j The great New England textile firms, employing hundreds of thousands or hands, 'have reduced wages by 2- per cent.

SALARIES OP CIVIL SERVANTS.

('Australian ar.<3 X.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE. December 11. Mr "VV. M. Hughes has announced, that the salaries of the Commonwealth civil servants will be from a minimum of £126 to £203, with proportionate increases to £300; and also os allowance for each child.

SEAMEN'S UNION.

SYDNEY, December 11.. Notwithstanding the H''.'h Court injunction restraining Mr Thomas Walsh from acting as secretary to the Seamen's Union, the latter body has ridden its executive, and declared that it will continue to recogniso Walsh as its secretary.

AGREEMENT REACHED.

MELBOURNE.. December 11. The hitch in the shipbuilding trndo •has been overcome, an ngroemontwith tho Commonwealth having been signed by t)he unions concerned.

BRITISH RAILROADS.

(Received December 12th, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, December 10. The railway companies rejected the Transport Ministry's proposal to accept workers elected by _ the workers as directors as unjustifiable, intolerable, and wrong in principle, because the workers would not accept financial responsibility to Bafeguarcl tho interests and rigjhts of shareholders.

JAPANESE SOCIALISTS.

(Received December 12th, II p.m.) TOICTO, December 11. Police broke un the first attempted mass meeting of Socialists representing all parts of Japan.