WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 9153, 7 June 1893, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

[Per Press Association.]

MELBOURNE, Junk 7.

The Seamen's (Inion have decided not to accept Uie reductions announced \>y Messrs M'llwraith, M'Eachern, and Co., but admit the necessity for a revised scale of wages. They suggest that members of the nuion should accept the following rates :—(Sailors, £f! per month ; firemen, £8 per month.

WELLINGTON, June 7,

The Trades and Labor Council have sent a letter to the Labor party in Queensland congratulating them on electing sixteen members at the recent polling, and urge them to destroy plural voting and substitute the one man one vote, which has been the making of the party in New Zealand. The writer shows that the time will come when the portfolio of Labor will be sufficient for one Minister, and pays a high tribute to the Hon. VY. P. Reeves. He says if the two portfolios now held by him were to. be separated he would undoubtedly be chosen by workers as Minister of Labor.

At the'monthly meeting last night of the Tailoresscs' Union office - bearers were elected as follows : President, Mr G. Parches ; vice-presidents, Miss Freeman, Hon. \V. M. Bolt, Mr R. Slater ; secretary, Miss H. R. Morrison ; treasurer, Miss Methven. The vacancies on the Committee were filled by Misses Stonebridge, Spence, Odare, Moss, Lyons, and Sutherland. Messrs M'llwraith, M'Eachern, and Co. have manned another of their steamers at the reduced rate of wages.