INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 119, 4 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

U.S. RAILWAYS. FIREMEN’S WAGES. [PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] (Received 1, 8.5 a.m.) New York, May 3. The Locomotive Firemen’s Union is now demanding an increase of wages on a scale commensurate with that secured by the engineers. The railroad managers declare the men’s demands mean an additional £5,000,000 expenditure in wages. U.S. ANTHRACITE WORKERS. New York, May 3. The tentative agreement providing a basis of settlement in the anthracite coal dispute was rejected, the mine-owners refusing to accept the proposals. One hundred and seventy thousand men are still idle. PICKETERS FINED. (Received 4, 11.0 a.m.) London, May 3. Fifteen picketers were fined £2 each on charges of intimidation in connection with the dispute at the motor works at Letchworth. TAILORSON STRIKE. 50,000 IDLE. London, May 3. Fifteen thousand tailors are striking, including machinists and pressers. Fifty thousand men and women will be thrown idle in London to-morrow. GREEN ISLAND DISPUTE. MINERS WILL “STAND SOLID.” Dunedin, May 3. A meeting of representatives of miners in tthe Green Island district was held to-night to consider the position in regard to the dispute at Christie’s mine, a resolution being passed pledging the meeting to stand solidly by the men on strike and to take every step necessary to get relief for the men concerned. Mr. Ridd, secretary of the Otago Coal Miners’ Union, states that it the dispute does not very speedily come to a head the New Zealand Federation of Labour will take charge and all the men in the Green Island district would stand by their advice, and if they said “down tools” there would not be a pick raised.

The employers are standing by their determination not to go back on their position.