WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 9471, 16 August 1894, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

[Per Press Association.]

BRISBANE, August 15,

Mr Glassey has moved a new resolution in connection with his proposed compulsory conciliation and arbitration board. He now proposes that" the Pastoiulists' Union and AVorkers' Union should each nominate two members of the board, and the Legislative A«sendjly appoint the chairman.

A largo wool shed on a station in the Thargomindah district, some 070 miles due west of here, has been destroyed by lire, and incendiarism is suspected. The strike among the shearers in tho Blackall district has broken up, and the men are resuming work. BRISBANE, August 10.

(Received August l(i, 1894, at 11 35 a.m.)

Details of an occurrence show that a constable, who was sleeping in a shed at Thargoniindah, was overpowered by twenty men (several of whom were armed with revolvers), blindfolded, and guarded till the shed was well alight, lie was then tied to a tree, and the men left.

A detachment of shearers from New Zealand has been sent out west.

Tho strike has practically terminated in tho Moorie district, where the men are resuming under the old agreement, while a few sheds arc working with police protection under the new agreement.

The half-yearly meeting of the Auckland Typographical Association was held last Saturday. The report stated that the trade was very dull during the last six months, and after referring to matters affecting the trade the report stated : —"The Board are pleased to state that the masters as a whole admit the Association's claims with regard to wages and hours are both reasonable and just." The income for the half-year was £46 and the expenditure £36, and the bank balance is £123.

The Auckland Knights of Labor have resolved to ask the Government, should a match factory be established in the colony, that it should receive strict supervision, and that a compulsory living wage be paid to the employes. It was further resolved to protest against the rumored bonus of £SOO to Bell and Co. A discussion on the Budget proposals of the Government resulted in the following resolution being carried:—"That the secretary write to tho Hon. Mr Ward that the Knights of Labor approve of the Budget proposals except the tax on fruit."