WAGES AND INDUSTRY

Evening Star, Issue 18058, 28 August 1922, Page 5

WAGES AND INDUSTRY

WELSH COLLIERIES FULLY EMPLOYED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. . LONDON, August 26. Owing to the steady improvement, in the demand, several North Wales collieries worked six full days this week a, record since the end of the war.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ■ PRINTERS’ STRIKE SETTLED. LONDON, August 26. As a result of a ballot, the printers’ strike has been settled, the men accepting a reduction of 12s 6d_ weekly in four instalments spread over nine months.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CANADIAN MINERS ACCEPT WAGE REDUCTION. OTTAWA, August 26. The Labor Department has announced that the coal miners and operators in Western Canada have signed an agreement by which the miners will accept a 15 per cent, reduction from tho 1921 wage scale. -A. and N.Z. Cable. ITALIAN STEAMER BOYCOTTED. LONDON, August 25. The transport workers at Cardiff instituteTa boycott against an Italian steamer manned by a Fascist! crew, and decided to ask the' employers to request the captain to leave port in order to avoid farreaching strife.—A. and N.Z. Cable. STRIKE AT HAVRE. PARIS, August 25. A strike against the wage reductions by the Havre engineers, who have won the sympathy of an overwhelming majority of tho townsfolk, developed to-day into practically a general strike, the tramwaymen, gas workers, and dockers downing tools. Two squadrons of cavalry were sent to reinforce the local forces, but no clashes have occurred yet. The mayor declares that the extension of the strike is due to imnorted Communist agitators.—A. and N.Z. Cable. EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR FRENCH SEAMEN. PARIS, August 25. The French Cabinet approved of a Bill applying an eight-hour day to the mercantile marine.—A. and N.Z. Cable.