LABOUR UNREST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 7

LABOUR UNREST.

EIGHT HOURS QUESTION. SETTLED IN DURHAM. BALLOT IN NORTHUMBERLAND ON MONDAY. D? Telegraph.— I'tcss Atfoclalion.— Copyright. (Received April 8, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, 7th Apiil. Tin 1 riglit hours question lias been i-cttlert nt Duihnm, and the disaffected tolliei i are leopening the mine". In Northunibcrloml balloting will take plncc on Monday a<- to whether the men will resume work. PENNSYLVANIA STRIKE. PRESIDENT DECLINES A REQUEST. (Received April 8, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 7th Apiil. President Taft declined to nciede to the rerjuct of fitly busiue-s men in Pennsylvania to v.ithrlnw Jive million f-tcrling worth of (Tbveriimcnl contracts from the Bethl«hem Steel Company, owing to the local strike. WESTERN CANADIAN RAILWAY WORKERS. DEMAND 40 PER CENT. INCREASE IN WAGES. OTTAWA, 7th April. Appr«h?nfion is felt in Western Canada owing to the railways' proposal to advance freights and passenger tariffs in ccmequence cf the railway unionn demanding wages increases aggregating 40 per cent, übove the present scale. WELSH MINERS. MASTERS' TERMS ACCEPTED. LONDON, 7th April. At the ballot of the WeMi miner? on the question whether they hall accept-^-as recommended by the Miners' Federation — tho modified 'proposals of the minecwneis, 50 per cent, of the miners votrd. It was decided by an ovci whelming majority to accept the ma&teiV term.3. Tho miner* in the Aberdaic Valley opposed ihS j/.'opciaJ.