WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 10391, 12 August 1897, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

A CARPENTERS' STRIKE AT CHRISTCHURCH.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 12. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners have decided to call out all their members receiving less than 10j per day. In this decision three men selected for work by the Government Railways and Works Department did not take up the job. The Government wage is 9a per day, and the hours forty-eight per week.

In consequence of'the engineers' strike -0,000 men will be locked out at Oldham, Lancashire, on the 19lh inst. The Engineers' Society claim a large increase in membership during the past three months. A meeting of the Labor Day Committee was held in the Trades Hall last night, when the sports programme, which contains some sixteen events of an attractive character, was discussed and adopted. It was decided to empower the Art Union Committee to act in the matter of pushing the art union vigorously, and, as the prize-lißt is a very valuable one, greater publicity is believed to be all that is necessary to ensure its complete success. As, apart from the facs that valuable prizes are offered, the object is to promote the free public library movement, and the art union ticket covers entrance to the sports, the public are expected to patronise it very extensively. The Labor Department has received a telegram stating that an employer in Auckland has been fined £lO for having failed to report to the inspector of factories that one of his men had fallen into a tanning vat and been severely scalded. The magistrate considered that the defendant had committed a serious breach of the law, and imposed the fullest penalty. The department intends to proceed against all employers who fail to report accidents to their employed.