INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 138, 28 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

BRITISH COALMINERS

[PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.]

London, May 27,

In many districts in the English federated area the men are demanding an increase of 5 per cent, in wages owing to the higher price of coal and the nature of the minimum wage award.

THE INANGUHUA MINES

Reefton, May 27.

There is n.o change in the situation to report. A number of men have been placed in different stations. Young unm'arried men are still leaving. There has been a great clearance from town, and business is depressed, but most tradesmen look on the present trouble as clearing the air and are hopeful that the trouble will soon, be settled. There is no trouble between the companies other than the Consolidated'group and the men, in fact the' best relations exist.

EARLY LABOUR REFORMERS

MEMORIAL TO THE MEN OF

TOLPUDDLE

(Received 28, 9.15 a.m.)

London, May 27,

Mr.. Alfred Henderson, M.P., unveiled a .public memorial to the six men of Tolpuddle’ who were convicted at Dorset in 1833 for conspiracy for. the betterment of wages to only seven shillings weekly. They were sentenced to seven years in Botany Bay, but the sentence was remitted in 1836.

The memorial adjoins the Wesleyan chapel where seme of the prisoners preached.

SYDNEY BUTCHERS.

(Received 28, 10.25 a.m.) Sydney, May 28

The master butchers ’have decided on a co-operative system with the men, securing shorter hours and Obviating the threatened strike.

Reef ton, May 28.

Matters are very quiet. There is still an exodus of unmarried men who have been enquiring re Lake Coleridge works advertised locally. A number of them are trying to get work there.