WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 14638, 7 August 1911, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

LONDON DOCKERS' STRIKE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrignt. LONDON. August 5. Sir A. K. Rollit's award in the dockers' dispute is expected to-morrow. Tho railways workers connected *vitb tho Port Authority handling the ehipping have decided to join the dockers. TERMS OF THE AWARD. CARMEN ORDERED TO STRIKE. LONDON, August 6. (Received August 7, at 0.50 p.m.) Sir A. K. Rollit's award in tho dockers' dispute has been received. The payment of 7d an hour, with an extra penny for overtime, is increased to 8d aud Is. The London Carmen's Union havo ordered a strike. Twenty-five thousand men are affected. It is alleged that the masters aro dilatory in dealing with the demands of the rtien. WORK RESUMED.

CAIRO, August 5. Fire hundred tramway strikers have resumed WOTkSAVAGE TRAMWAY RIOTS. NEW YORK, August 6. (Received August 7, at 8.5 a.m.) One hundred strike-breakers were injured ;it Des Moines during the riots arising out of the tramwaymen's strike. Th.> etrikft-breakers took refuge in n f-tationary train, whore the Unionists stoned and beat them. SCOTTISH MINERS' DEMANDS. LONDON, August 6. (Received August 7, at 9.30 a.m.) A conference of the Scottish Miners' Federation adopted a policy of five days for a working week, and also demanded that employers pay full compensation until an injured workman is fit for light work, and to find him employment. SYDNEY, August 7. (Received August 7, at 9.30 a.m.) The conference over the Lithgow Ironworks trouble proved futile.