LABOUR MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 74, 30 March 1910, Page 7

LABOUR MATTERS.

RESULT OF NORTHUMBERLAND DISPUTE. FIRE IN A MINE. THOUSANDS WILL BE RENDERED WORKLESS. Sy Tetef nph. — l'rcii A nsoclation.— Copyright. (Received March 30, 9 a«m.) LONDON, 29th March. The Northumberland mining dispute resulted in fire gaining a hold in the Radcliffe Colliery, owing to neglect to attend to the fire barriers. The owners are flooding the mine. This will render thousands of people workless. AMERICAN MINE WORKERS. EMPLOYERS' TERMS REJECTED. GREAT STRIKE PBOBABLE. NEW YORK, 29th March. Tb© United Mine Workers have unonLj mously rejected tho terras offered by the mine-owners of Ohio, Indiana, and West Pennsylvania. It is feared that a great strike will ensue. TRAINMEN AND CONDUCTORS. FAILURE TO SETTLE A DISPUTE. A BALLOT. NEW YORK, 29th March. The union of trainmen and conductors on the Lake Shore-Michigan-South-ern railroad are taking a ballot, owing to the failure of negotiations to settle an outstanding dispute. Twenty thousand men are affected. NEW/ YORK TRAINMEN DISSATISFIED. WHAT THEY DEMAND. INCREASES IN WAGES. (Received March 30, 8.16 a.m.) NEW YORK, 29th March. The- New York Central railroad conductors and trainmen have demanded an increase in wages, ranging from 8 to 84 per cent.. 'The company offered 8 to 25 per cent. A strike vote is being taken. NEW SOUTH WALES TRADES UNION CONGRESS. FREE LABOURERS. PROTEST AGAINST JUDGE HEYDON'S DECISION. SYDNEY, 29th March. The New South Wales Trades Union Congress jlms . opened. A resolution was passed protesting against Judge Hcydon placing the Free Labourers' Union on the wharf labourer*' Wages Board. NEWCASTLE "ENGI.NEDIUVERS. RATES~OF PAY. SYDNEY, 29th March. The Newcastle enginednvers' Wages Board has fixed rates of pay ranging from 13id to 16id an hour, mechanics' wages from 13^(1 to 16d an hour. MELBOURNE TIMBER STACKERS. LIKELY LOCK-OUT. MELBOURNE, 29th March. Owing to a dispute with the timber stackers, there is a likelihood, if the trouble is not promptly adjusted, that the Timber Merchants' Association will close their yards, causing a lock-out that ' would be disastrous to the building trade, throwing thousands idle. _ _ _ RESULT OF A CONFERENCE. CRISIS WILL PROBABLY BE ENDED. (Received March 30, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 29th March. As a result of the conference in connection with the South Wales mining dispute, it has been stated that the crisis will probably be ended.