WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 14888, 29 May 1912, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

STRHvES AND DISSENSIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. "LONDON, May 28. At the conference of the National Association of Grocers' Assistants the executive were instructed to take steps to secure a minimum wage. The Gasworks General Laborers' Union ! conference at Sunderland decided to with- ! draw from the General Trade Union Federation, because their members had not received strike pay during tho recent strikes and lock-outs. Six hundred laborers in the Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard at Govan have struck for an increase of id per hour and the recognition of tho National Amalgamation of Labor. LABOR, TYRANNY DENOUNCED. SYDNEY, May 29. (Received May 29, at 10.10 a.m.) In the course of a speech *.tr Bell, managing director of the North Coast Steamship Company, said that the existing labor tvranny must end. The laborer is worthy of his hire, but when tyranny and oppression become uppermost then something must give way. He characterised tho recent Arbitration awards for masters and officers as a disgrace to a civilised race. HIKURANGI COAL-MINERS. WHANG ARE 1, May 2?. The employees of the Northern Coal Company's mine at Hikurangi struck today as "the outcome of a difference with the management respecting weighing. The indications arc that the difficulty is adjustable.