DISQUIET WORKERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 7

DISQUIET WORKERS.

TRADES UNIGN CONGRESS. N.S.W. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES ACT. .WHEN STRIKES SHOULD BE RESORTED TO. .By Telegraph.— Press Assoclatlon.~Copyright. (Received April 1, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Trades Union Congress adopted a resolution emphatically protesting against Mr. Wade's coercive Industrial Disputes Amendment Act of 1909, and pledging itself to make every effort to return Labour members at next election in sufficient number to have the amended Act repealed and the Industrial Disputes Act itself amended so as to bo suitable for the workers. Another resolution carried was :—: — "That this congress favours obtaining its ideals and redressing its grievances by constitutional methods, and is of opinion that strikes should only be resorted to when every possible hope of conciliation has failed." Supporters of the motion urged that past experience had proved that it was futile to expect to redress grievances by a resort to strikes. The ballot-box was the only channel through which it was possible to achieve Labour's ideals. SOUxH WALES MINERS. THE MODIFIED* PROPOSALS. LONDON, 31st March. The result of the conference in London of the Miners' Federation, which recommends the South Wales miners to accept the owners' modified proposals, is welcomed in South Wales. Tho owners have agreed that the abnormal places question still remains in si atn quo. A ballot of the South Wales miners on the question of accepting the proposals is being arranged. Pennsylvania railroad men. increased" wages. NEW YORK. 31st March. AH the railroads comprising the Pennsylvania system have followed the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's example by increasing wages six per cent, Ihe increase aifects 195,000 men, and adds £2,000,000 to the pay roll. [The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has decided to incrcaso the wages of 11)0,000 of its employees.]