WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 14636, 4 August 1911, Page 9

WORK AND WAGES.

QUEENSLAND SUGAR STRIKE.

NO NEARER SETTLEMENT.

-Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, - MELIJOURNB, August 3.

The Federal Acting Premier (Mr Hughes) stated to-day that he approved tho appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the sugar industry, with special reference to tho Queensland trouble. The secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union has gone to Queensland to watch the interests of tho members and to take charge of their aspect of the sugar strike. A large number of men replied to an advertisement for men to work at the Queensland sugar-mills. Mr Ryland, a Labor member of the Queensland Assembly, urged tho men not to go, whereupon the crowd dispersed. A DEMAND FOR MORE PAY. MELBOURNE, August 3. The District Amalgamated Society of Engineers have presented to all the city firms and the Railway Commissioners a demand for an increase of Is per day in their pay. RUSSIAN DOCKERS ON STRIKE. ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. Twelve thousand dockers have struck, throwing idle two-thirds of the shipping. THE LONDON DOCKERS. LONDON. August 3. At a meeting of dockers Mr Ben Tillett announced that a Strike Committee for the Port of London was being formed that would embrace every section of workers. The committee would eo-openile with the national transport workers. A conference between tho employers and the men will be held to-morrow. SAVAGE TRAMWAY RIOTS. CAIRO, August 3. (Received August 4. at 8.5 a.m.) A tramway strike lot! to eerie us riots. The police relentlessly fab red tho rioter 3, who replied with stones and .some revolver shots. Thirty persons were injured, including several police. Many care were wrecked,

SCARCITY OF CARPENTERS. .SYDNEY, August 4. (Received August 4. 9.10 a.m.) Before the. Labor Commission evidence way given that carpenters were busier now than at any period since 1882. CARTERS' STRIKE SETTLED. HOBART, August 4. (Received August 4, 9.10 a.m.) The carters strike has ended. The men have accepted the terms offered by the employers, which provide for increases, but not to large as those the. union demanded.

RIOTERS PUNISHED,

THE STRIKERS' GAINS AND LOSSES. BRISBANE, August 4. (Received August 4, at 10.50 a.m.) The nine men who were arrested in cout'ectiou with the Childers riot wore sentenced to three months' imprisonmentThe police visited the Chiiders strikers' cr.mp and arrested 16 more. The unionists at Maekay induced the crew cf the steamer Trinawar to leave the vessel Iweaufe it towed a lighter loaded with non-union sugar, and at Townsville they induced a number of free laborers who were preceding to Cairns to join the strike. At Bundaberg 12 sinkers were committed for trial ou charges of unlawful assembiv.

A ballot of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Laborers' Union ha« been taken on tlie question of the submission of the dispute between, the union and the Canterbury Shcepowners' Union and others, and it lias linen agreed by a large majority to coniirin the ballot on Monday.