LABOUR WORLD

Grey River Argus, 11 August 1925, Page 5

LABOUR WORLD

•STRIKE AT ARAPUNT. REASON NOT STATED. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August- 10. Men working on the tunnel at Arapuni came out on strike ou Friday morning. This work, which is one of the most important being undertaken al the moment has for its object, the diverting of the Waikato river, so that tho foundation of u dam tnny be built. Tlic work had been reorganised in a satisfactory .manner in this section quite recently, floods having iuterruptitd operations and tho men were working in shifts,of six and a half hours, and Iwtd been earning /12 8s each per shift. It is slated that following the sudden decrease m output of spoil from the tunnel, nego tiaiions were commenced ,nnd thougti the men's leaders received tho proposals favourably, a. strike was declared. So far no settlement La s been made. BRITISH TENSILE WAGE CUT. LONDON, August 9. A conference of wool textile employers itmd workers agreed to abide by the findings of the Court of Inquiry, to lie appo nted by the Ministry of Labour, but an agreement nas not yet been reached on the question of terms for an immediate resc.-.n-j--tion of work. The conference will resume on Monday. JAPANESE LABOUR LEGISLATION. TOKIO, August 8. The Home Office has drafted the proposed Labour Union bill, the mam features being recognition of the unions’ right to sign collective contracts with employers, and punishment ot employers ignoring such right. Hie measure w>H be introduced during the next session of the Diet. SHIP’S CREW GAOLED. FOR DEMANDING N.Z. RATES. CHRISTCHURCH, Angust 10. Seventeen members of the crew of the steamer WUlasto.i were arrested evening on a charge of lefusing duty, aud wore lodged in Lyttelton '.lock-up. . \ Owing to a shortage in the stoke TlVld hands, six local meu were engaged at New Zealand rates of pay and cat 1 , ditions, and w hen the vessel was re.i\\dy to proceed to sea, those on the English articles retused to.work unless they, were granted, the same wages and cona tions as the new members of the crew; They were therefore charged with '.refusing duty, aud were placed under arrest.

AUSTRALIAN SHEARING DISPUTE (Kece.i'A'd August 10 at 10,20 p.m.) August 10. Mr JustAVe Powers has summoned a compulsory ( Conference of the parties to the diiipl\\-« regarding the shearers’ rates and co) difious between the Australian Workers’ Union and the Pastoralist. AssuiAation. Tho representatives of New,! South Wales, Victoria, i.e.stralia, and Tasmania attended, bul as pn agreement could not be reached, the' dispute' was referred into the Court. \, , .