LABOUR MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1912, Page 7

LABOUR MATTERS.

« MINIMUM WAGE. JOINT CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK. SCOTTISH MINERS AND THEIR AGREEMENT. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright (Received January 31, 8.25 a.m.) LONDON, 30th January. A joint conference of owners and miners of British coalfields will be held on 7th February to discuss the minimum wage. . Scottish miners ■ have tendered six months' notice of the termination of the ' existing agreement, but the owners contend that insistence upon the minimum wage itself is a breach of agreement. The Conciliation Board will discuss the point on 9th February. THAMES IRONWORKS. PROPOSED SACRIFICE OF WAGES. DISAPPROVED BY TRADE UNIONS. (Received January 31, 8.40 a.m.) 1 LONDON, 30th January. The trade unions strongly disapprove oi the decision ot Thames Ironworks employees to sacrifice half of the November advance in wages in order to enable the company to seoure the contracts for -two cruisers. I The executive of the Carpenters and Joiners', Engineers and Boilermakers', and Shipwrights' Trades Unions have intimated to their members working at the Thames Ironworks that they will not be allowed to accept wages below the rates prescribed for the London district. [Mr. J. W. Hills, Unionist M.P. for Durham, asked a meeting of employees at the Thames Ironworks to sacrifice half of the November advance in wages in order that the company may secure the contract for building two cruisers for the British Navy. Twelve hundred assented to this. There were only ten dissentients. The meeting was called without reference to the trade unions.] • • GLASGOW DOCKERS. THREATENED 'STRIKE OVER NON UNIONISTS. (Received January 30, 8.26 am.) LONDON, 30th January. Seven thousand dockers are striking at Glasgow. They demand that non-union-ists should be discharged if unionists are available to replace them ; also that foremen should oe members of the union.