STRIKE SETTLED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 112, 13 May 1911, Page 5

STRIKE SETTLED.

THE HARVESTER WORKERS. RECENT HITCH. RESULT OF A MISUNDERSTANDING. By. Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright. (Received May 13, 10 a.m.) ' MELBOURNE, This Day. The harvester workers' strike was definitely settled yesterday. The hitch regarding the agreement was the result of ib misunderstanding. , FEDERAL ARBITRATION COURT. A JUDGMENT. MELBOURNE, 12th May. The Fedei*al Arbitration Court has delivered judgment on the claim of tho Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association of Australia, which- affects a largo number of the leading mines throughout the Common wealth. Rates of wages have been fixed as follow : — Locomotive and winding engioe'drivers, lie to 12s a day; other enginedrivers, 9s to 10s; firemen in charge of ono boiler, 8s 4dj firemen in charge of two boilers, 9s ; greasers and cleaners, &s. The court said it did not think a case had been made out for preference to unionists. , The working hours have been fixed at forty-eight weekly, excepting in the case of locomotive-drivers, regarding whom it is impossible to fix hours. The award is to operate for five years. ', REDUCTION OF WAGES. ' CONSEQUENT OnTa FALL IN THE SELLING PRICE OF COAL. LONDON, 12th May. The South Wales Coal Conciliation ■ Board has agreed, on a 1£ per cent. . reduction of wages owing to a fall in the average selling price of coal. JOHANNESBURG TRAMWAY MEN ON STRIKE. JOHANNESBURG, 12th May. "Ehe men, employed on the city tram1 ways have gone out on strike. SERIOUS SITUATION. ARREST OF A STRIKE LEADER. (Received May 13, 9.10 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, 12th May. The situation here is serious. The strikers are boarding cars and stopping traffic, and business ie praotically 1 paralysed. The strikers demand the reinstatement of two tramway men. Glynn, a leader of the strike, had been arrested for a charge of inciting a riot.