THE LABOR WORLD.

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 March 1910, Page 3

THE LABOR WORLD.

SEVERAL STB IKES IMMINENT [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] Beceivell this d.TV tit 8.16 11. 111. NEW YORK, March 29. The New Yolk Central Railroad conductors and trainmen have demanded an increase in wages ranging from 8 t<> 84 per cent, .The Company offered 8 to 25. A strike vote is being taken. The Union of tram-men and conductors of the Lake Michigan Southern ijyv.ywT ;hv iin</ ballot, owinif t<»

the failure of negotiations to settle the outstanding dispute. Twenty thousand men are affected. Tim United -Mine Workers have unanimously rejected the Ohio, Indiana ami Went Pennsylvania Company’s terms and a great strike is feared. SYDNEY, March 29. The New South Wales Trades Union Congress lias opened. A. resolution was passed protesting against. Judge Hoydon placing members of the Free Labourers Unon on tiro Wharf Laboiueis Wages Board. , „„ NEWCASTLE, March 29. The Engine Drivers’ Wages Board has fixed the pay of mechanics ft mi 13,'<1 to 16d per hour. MELBOURNE, Ma.h 29. Owing to a dispute with timber stackers, there is a DViK-id, if the trcT 11 : .; " i; : the 'I iin her ‘ 1 •* close their yards, thus causing a lockout, which would ho disastrous to the building trade, throwing thousands