WORK AND WAGES

Evening Star, Issue 15129, 10 March 1913, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES

GASWORKERS’ STRIKE. TERMS OP THE AGREEMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph,—Copyright* SYDNEY, March 8. The agreement, which was accepted at a meeting of the gasworkers, provides that the men shall resume work forthwith, and that the government shall summon a special session of Parliament within 12 days, with a view to amending the Arbitration Act so as to allow the dispute to be dealt with by a Wages Board. The companies agree to give retrospective effect to any excess rates contained in the board’s award, any increase in the price of gas to operate for a sufficient period to enable the companies to recover the amount expended under the provision. All strikers are restored to their former positions, and there is to be no victimisation of the men by the companies nor by the men or the union of the men employed by the companies. The secretary of the Gasworkers’ Union asserts that if the men had not had the hospitals and the public in mind they would have been firmer in their demands. The gas service is now fully restored. General gratification is expressed at the settlement of the dispute. The Premier (Mr APGowen) claims an absolute triumph for conciliation. NO POLITICAL ADVANTAGE. THE MEN’S LOSS. SYDNEY, March 10. (Received March 11, at 11 a.m.) Mr Wade has promised Mr APGowen that the Opposition will not take a'dvantage > of Air Holman’s absence during the special session convened to amend the Arbitration Act, necessitated by the recent gas trouble. The strike has cost the men £6,500 in wages alone. RICHARDSON REINSTATED. T1 -U-J1 Jr> LONDON, March 8. ihe Midland Railway Companv have reinstated Richardson. company state that they recognise the possibility of oral instructions conflicting with the printed regulations, and they propose to revise the latter to meet the difficulty. THE BAKERS’ STRIKE. LONDON, March 8. President of the Board of Trad* (All Buxton) has intervened in connection with the bakers’ dispute. TRADE BOARDS. LONDON, Alarch 9. (Received Alarch 10, at 9 a.m.) The Bishop of Oxford presided over a demonstration at the Queen’s Hall. London, in favor of the extension of the „ Boards Act. A resolution urging the Government to extend tin? scope of the Act was approved. TALK OF NATIONAL STRIKE. LONDON. March 9. (Received March 10. at 8.30 a.m.) The amalgamated railwayman are satisfied mith .lie Midland J’aiiwav decision. The engineers at D woupo; I dockyard have refused In work ■ in until then wages are incur,-end to an c-ji’dilv with those in private' yaids. A ballot, will' riiurilv i c I:l,rn on a national strike. twenty thousand ca:p i; ; r.s and joiners in Loudon have rlitu re i an advance in wage? involving (be m-' - ;i j„ an m . created payment i f PTOVOt yearlv.