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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 208, 27 May 1908, Page 7

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RESULT OF THE SHIPBUILDERS' BALLOT. BOARD OF TRADE VICTORY. PEACE BY A NARROW MAJORITY. BY TELEUHAPII —PREBS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Roc. May 26, 9.37 p.m.) London, May 26. The ballot of tho workers in connection with tho ship-building dispute resulted: — For settlement 24,145 Against ... 22,110 : Majority for ... ... 2,035 The settlement on which the ballot was taken is to be based on the terms arranged by, the President of tho Board of Trade, Mr. Winston Churchill. Work will be resumed on Friday. . Trade Unionist' officials believe that the establishment of Conciliation Boards will prevent all future sectional disputes. A DISASTER AVERTED. The shipbuilding employees balloted on a proposal framed before the Board of Trade, to accept eighteen pence a week reduction, the masters agreoing to permanent boards of conciliation. It was through the mediation of tlie Board of. Trade—then under Mr. LloydGeorge—that tho railways trouble was settled last year, by the Appointment of sectional conciliation boards. The original demand of tho shipbuilding employers (says "The Times") was for a reduction of Is. Gd. per week; later, they passed a. resolution in favour of assimilating tho rate of wages on the Tyne to that on tho Clyde, the effect of which would be practically to double the reduction already asked for. . . Speculating on the results of a general lookout of engineers and ship-yard employees, a Home papier says that "no less than 70,000 will be aflected, and in ovent of tho industrial war spreading to this extent the weekly losses to the men will average out at scmothmg like ■£140,000. This figure is arrived at on tho fol-, lowing estimates of the men variously employed in connection with the shipbuilding industry : — Strike Wages. pay. 11,000 engineers £25,200 £11,000 16,000 minor industries ... £21,000 £12,000 1,000 shipwrights ... ... £7,750 £2,500 36,000 men, painters, pluinbors, gas ' workers, braz- i. iers, labourers, etc., at rough average wage of. 255. ; £15,000 £9,000 ' Total weekly loss £i 39,450.