WORK AND WAGES

Evening Star, Issue 14513, 3 November 1910, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES

STRIKERS CHARGED IN CHICAGO. SOCIETY WOMEN ARRESTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 2. Mounted policemen in Chicago charged mobs of striking garment-makers, and arrested numbers of them, including many society women, who aided the strikers. Tho ladies were released when their identity was discovered. WELSH MINERS’ STRIKE. . A DISORDERLY MARCH. LONDON, November 2. Tho South Wales strikers are marching from pit to pit with tho object of persuading the workers to join them. They received a mixed reception at several collieries. The strikers also demand a conference to consider the question of a general strike. AN AUSTRALIAN LOCK-OUT. ADELAIDE, November 2. All the moulders and boilermakers employed by Martin and Co., of Gawlcr, have been locked out, but the office and stores staffs have been kept on. The Various unions are forming a general committee to take charge of affairs. STRAW HATMAKERS’ STRIKE. ADELAIDE, November 2. Over fifty straw hat makers employed by Good, Durant, and Co. have struck over tho dismissal of an employee named Brookes and the firm’s determination to stand by two girls who refuse te join the mi ion. NO FUNDS TO HELP OTHERS, PARIS, November 2. The railway strikers having appealed to the British trade unions for aid, Mr Appleton (president) replied that tho British unions liad used all their available resources, , and tint it was extremely difficult te secure subscriptions. BOILERMAKERS’ LOCK-OUT. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK. LONDON, November 2. A circular accompanying tho boilernudfers’ ballet papers shows that the balance of tho general fund is £6,790. It acids that it is clear that, whatever tho result of the lock-out may be, tho lock-out pay cannot be continued. A NOVEL PANACEA. SYDNEY, November 3. (Received November 3, at 9 a.m.) The speakers at the coal lumpers’ picnic strongly advocated tho amalgamation of all existing unions inside one universal union, with trade sections to liave power in exclusive matters. Tho president of tho Libor Council (Mi- Farrar) urged that the selling prices of commodities should be fixed by law during tho currency of agreements, in order that any increase in wages should not bo swamped by raising the cost of living. 'Phis proposal was generally approved.