WORK AND WAGES. LONDON PRINTING DISPUTE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24, 30 January 1911, Page 7

WORK AND WAGES. LONDON PRINTING DISPUTE.

MEN GO ON STRIKE. NON-STRIKERS ATTACKED. By Teteeraph.— Press Association.— Copyright (Received January 30, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 29th January. In connection with the trouble in th? printing trade, the machine minders, cutters, and labourers employed by Spottiswood and Co., printers and | electrotypers, have struck work. Tho strikers mobbed the non-strikers, who Were protected by the police. Waterlow and Sons, printers and manufacturing stationers, paid their men a week's wages in lieu of notice. ' MELBOURNE WHARF LABOURERS. DEMAND FOR EXTRA PAY. SIX HUNDRED MEN REFUSE TO WORK. MELBOURNE, 29th January. i-ne wharf labourers working at the steamers Marloo and Arawatta hava struck, demanding fourpence ai' hour extra for handling cement and superphosphates. The company granted the extra amount, but refused to include the rate in an agreement. The other wharf labourers joined the strike. All, except those employed on 1 the timber vessels, are idle. About six hundred men are affected by the strike. The mon thought cement and phosphates wero included in the list of special cargoes for which thera is extra payment, but wheh they got the lists they found they were not. ui° m ? stors refused to include them, although paving the increase now. The masters say they intend to sit back until the men resume «-ork.