LABOUR MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 153, 28 June 1912, Page 2

LABOUR MATTERS

* mi WATERSIDE WORKERS AT ONEHUNGA TROUBLE SETTLED. [BI TBLEaBAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 27th. June. The trouble with the wateraiders at Onehvmga was adjusted to-day, and the men resumed work at 2.15 o'clock. A conference was previously, held with the 1 Onehunga representative of" the Northern S.S. Company. An agreement was then come to under which, for the future the men will be both put on and off by the foreman and off by the -mate. The men are allowed a quarter of an hour's pay if they work six minutes beyond the hour. Their objection to being put off by the mate was that a difference of a couple of minutes between his watch and that of the foreman might result in extra pay being lost to them. In regard to the question of sighing the 'agreement with' the Federation of Labour, it was agreed that it should stand over for a month, till the manager of the company (Mr. Hanson)' returns from Australia. DWELLINGS FOR .WORKERS AUCKLAND, 27th- < June. The Department of Labour has invited tenders for the erection of thirty-six workers' dwellings at Ellerslie and Otahuhu. Of this number twenty-six are to be added to Lawry Settlement, and the other ten at Eccleston Settlement, I Otahuhu. RAILWAY MEN DISSATISFIED « .. DUNEDIN, 27th June. At a meeting of the Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Railway Officers' Institute, a resolution was carried expressing indignation at the failure of the Minister for Railways to give effect to the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee who enquired into the complaints of the First Division, referred to in a petition presented to Parliament last year. The meeting regarded the failure to carry out the recommendations of the Railway Committee as a distinct breach of faith on the part of the Government, and strongly expressed the opinion that by so doing it would increase' the discontent and dissatisfaction already prevailing throughout the service. Entire approval of the action of the delegation in advising the Minister for Railways that his proposals were unsatisfactory was also expressed. STRIKE FUNDS BRESSERS' UNION VOTE. [Bt XKiEQaAPH- -SPECIAL TO THX POST.] DUNEDTN, This Day. The Dunedm Preesers 1 Union, at a meeting on Monday night, considered ■>, letter from the Federation of Labour, who asked for a donation towards the strike fund. It was resolved to devote two guineas to the Reef ton miners, the money to be forwarded direct, and not tlirough the Federation. A resolu tion was carried urging the Government to start a. State clothing factory, in consideration 'of the 'fact that co many Territorial uniforms had to be supplied, and that such a 1 venture had proved a success in the-' Australian Commonwealth. \' CONGRATULATIONS FROM' AUSTRALIA;' . ' . — J ' , i Bj Telegraph.— Press Assoolatton.-CopyrlghJ. SYDNEY, 26th June. Th© Inter-S^ate Labourere Union Conference adopted a resolution 'Congratulating ihe Waihi and Beef ton miners on ( their magnificent fight in defence of bona fide unionism', and expressing the hope ■ that .they will prove successful. ' ,