LABOUR TROUBLES.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1289, 15 September 1910, Page 2

LABOUR TROUBLES.

ADELAIDE SLAUGHTERMEN RESUSIE WORK. OUTLOOK FOR UNIONISM* - SIR SNOWDEN'S OPINION. THE TYNE LOCK-OUT. UNIONISTS IN CONGRESS. (UY Et.IiCTIUC TELEGRAPH—CO! __I(JHT.) (PEE PBEBB ASSOCIATION.) Adelaide, September 14. Tbe slaughtermen have decided to resume work to-morrow. They are to be paid 27s Od per hundred for sheep and lambs, under the Conciliation Board's award, which will take effect as from August 23. Sir Philip Snowden, Labour member for Blackburn, in an article on the outlook for trades unionism, emphasised the existence of a crisis far more serious than the Osborne case. Slembers were seriously divided against themselves, and unless wisdom can prevail and unity be restored, trade unions would be disintegrated and destroyed.

Owing to the lock-out, the manager of the graving dock at the Tyne is declining repair work. This has gone to Rotterdam and Antwerp. The Joint Trades Committee request a conference with the employers. It is urged that the lock*out is causing much bitterness among the men. Negotiations are being continued towards a conference. London, September 14. At the Trades Union Congress the Stevedores' League's proposal to amalgamate the Congress with the General Labour Federation and the Labour Party was negatived by a small majority. - Sir D. J. Sbackleton remarked that the distinctive trades union element had proved a decided advantage in approaching successive Governments, apart altogether from the political Labour Party organisation. (Cheers.) The r'ariiamentary Committee would otherwise always be fighting the Government of the day. Sir Ben Tillett's resolution to ascertain the opinion of the affiliated unions regarding the practicability of determining all industrial agreements by a given date for each year was carried by 1,055,000 to 445,000 votes. Tbe appearance on the platform of three women chairmakers on strike at Cradley Heath enlisted warm sympathy. Sir Haslam, ....P. for Derbyshire, describing the poor white slaves .;\ England, said a collection should be taken at the door ami the unions i.o urged to contribute towards their support. Wellington, September 14. | About 100 persons attended antieting convened by the Trades and L::b our Council to-night, when it was resolved to form a branch of the New Zealand Labour Party, established at j the recent Trades Council Coni'ere-i c. (Received Sept. 15, 9 a.m.) London, September 14. The Trades Congress denounced international blacklegging, condemned railway amalgamation, and demanded tho nationalisation of railways. The Congress referred a resolution welcoming the payment of members, but declining to recognise this means as a solution of the Osborne case, to a committee, on the ground that the resolution was .incomplete and of a negative character. This will defer the debate on the Osborne judgment. Sydney, September 15.

The Butchers' Employees' Federation rejected the offer of meat exporters of 27s 6d per 100 for killing sheep and 25s for lambs. It demands i s Od all round.