INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.
SCOTTISH COLLIERY ENGINE TROUBLE SETTLED. [UNITED FRESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGHT.J LONDON, March 30. In connection with the engineering dispute, cabled on February 20th, it is stated that the trouble has been adjusted through Mr. G. R. Askwitli. The number of eight-hour shifts has been considerably increased. [The cable of February 20th stated: “The Scottish colliery engine-keepers have resolved to strike unless granted an eight hours’ day. They threaten compulsory stopping of mines employing 95.000 men.] THE CANADIAN MINERS’ TROUBLE.
OTTAWA, March 30
The Minister of Labor is intervening in the threatened 1 strike of Alberta and British Columbia miners, and is hopeful of preventing a strike. STRIKE ON SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WORKS!
ADELAIDE, March 31One hundred and fifty men at Auoaston railway works struck owing to The employment of a non-unionist. THE BLACKBALL SETTLEMENT. iPER PRESS ASSOCIATION.J GREYMOUTH, March 31 The mining dispute at Blackball; which resolved itself at last to a question of pillar workers and! truckers, has been amicably arranged, and a new agreement has been entered upon, but. not vet signed. The terms were aecpted by the Miners’ Union m-confer-ence with the manager and Westpoit representatives of the Coalmine Owners’ Association late yesterday. Work .was''resumed as'usual to-day.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3184, 1 April 1911, Page 7
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