WORK AND WAGES

Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES

SOUTH WALES MINERS,

A BLUSTERING AGENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 31. Mr Stanton, tho men’s agent, wrote to the manager of the Powell-Duffryn Mining Company in South Wales stating that if there was any blacklegging in connection with the dispute there was going to be murder. The company thereupon refused to have further negotiations with Mr Stanton, whom the men support. The twelve thousand Cambrian miners, whose notices are expiring, propose that the Powell-Duffryn strikers should form a trade union independent of tho Miners’ Federation, which disagrees with the men’s action. Twenty-five thousand men will bo affect-eel. THE BOILERMAKERS’ LOOK-OUT. LONDON, October 31. A committee representing tho masters and tho Executive of the Boilermakers’ Society have agreed to verbal alterations, removing some of the men’s misinterpretations of the agreement. A fresh ballot will bo taken. FREE LABOR CONGRESS. NO CONFIDENCE IN LEGISLATIVE ACTS. LONDON, October 31. (Received November 1, at 8.57 aun.) Tho Congress of Free Labor Associations, representing 768,000 workers, passed a resolution requesting the repeal of the Trades Disputes Act. and declaring they had no confidence either in the Labor Department, the Board of Trade, or in Conciliation and Arbitration Boards, owing to their connection with trade unionists. NO DIVIDED ALLEGLYNCE. MELBOURNE, November 1. (Received November 1, at 9.55 a.m.) A special conference of tho Victorian Labor Council, decided that members of the Commonwealth Protectionist Association who are also members of the Labor Council must sever their connection with the former body. STRIKE OP COAL TRIMMERS. SYDNEY, November 1. (Received November 1, at 9.55 a.m.) Owing to a strike of the coal trimmers at Newcastle a number of vessels are held