WHAT A STRIKE COST.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 278, 17 August 1908, Page 2

WHAT A STRIKE COST.

! WEST AUSTRALIAN TIMBER TIUDIL Speaking at the annual - meetiiig of Militt'jj : ! liarri and Jarrah Forests Company, i Limited IWfeStferii. Australia), held in Loiidonr tha ■ chairman of dircotoris.,attributed tlio. dc? . feline iii tk jtoafit-S of tHc comj?anyraiuounfc- , inr to £40,000) to the -recent; •strike of workmen. The latter* he said/ now■. doSirtd , that a cb-op6rativb sbheme .should bo .lfttjW diiced. , Tlife dir&torS could not gossibl? consent to this proposal, but they "had jit-. feied an alternative scheme, lhe workiiien, the chairman added, were less, blimeable than were tho . agitators and inferibcrs of the Labour party' With; tllcir. palltical / \ propagan . 4b6Ve .ilsitettfenl; from Perth , s&ys that wlleli! tltS. timbelr " strike ■ was settled last yehr oiie thd. teriiis v df settlement arranged. blits(de the Arbitration Court award waS that" ~th'e; well 1 ; should be at liberty to take oVef» one br lflore Jlillar's Kairri §hd Jftffali Gbm« Mny'B mills; and work .them .. btively. No arrangement has yet, beeri , arrived at to carry oUt this. , pfoyi- , felon. Mr. llolman't Labour -M.lj.A., 1-fceentlv asked the Premier, if the company, had failed to carry out the agreement of . June last-yeaK . ,\.: L ~7T■'■"i'. 1 ''Tlio Premier replied that • he haa communicated with Mr. M'l\cil, gei'.sral' manager .of the company, who .had replied that'the workers had only rewired ' the full benefit of the concession which the Government altbwcd to. the company ,on railway for timber, _biit had rolu.it> i tardy made adjustments of increased wage* ■ . to a further substantial arm" it. Mr. Hoiman, who is. the secretary of the Timber Workers' Union, has lately been raising tin co-operative clauso 4 agreement, .intimating that if it .be repudiated trouble with th« workers will ensue. A conference of delegates from the saw Wills is to bo held itt ■ Petth." ... " '