WORKERS AND WAGES

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 5

WORKERS AND WAGES

STEEL TRUST EMPLOYEES. A RISE OF SIX PER CENT. AX ESTIMArE. -8y Telegraph. — Preps Association.- Copyright.*. (Received April 2, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Ist April. The Steel Trust is raising the wages; of 225,000 employees by six per cent. It' is estimated that before tho samemovement in other directions ends, the, American workers ■will have a rise in, wages over the 1909 aggregate of one t hundred million pounds annually. IN WALES. WORK SUSPENDED. AT ABERDARE. . LARGE MEETINGS. (Received April 2, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, Ist April. Several colliers at Abeidare, Wale*, have suspended work pending a settlement of the dispute. Meetings attended by thousands of miners passed resolutions demanding the resignation of the leaders. Reports from -Cardiff and Merthyr are-» reassuring. COALMINERS 1 STRIKE. AT INDIANAPOLIS. THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND OUT. (Received April 2, 9.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, Ist ApriL Three huundred thousaaid bituminous coalminers at Indianapolis, Indiana, have struck pending ratification of the agreements providing for advances in, wages. Mr. Lewis, president of the Uni*edy Mine Workers of North America, re : cently threatened to call a strike affecting the hard and soft coal industries unless an increase in wages was granted. This was interpreted to mean that it was desired to expedite negotiations with regard to the wages scale of the bituminous coal-workers in' Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia.