INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 173, 6 July 1912, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

TRANSPORT STRIKE

THE END IN SIGHT

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London, July 5.

The leaders announce the possibility of ending the strike by sectional arrangements. The men may resume work next week.

TEN HOURS’ DAY IN FRANCE

Paris, July 5.

The Chamber of Deputies by 459 votes to 56, agreed to a bill establishing a ten hours’ day for all employees in trade or industry.

TELEGRAPHISTS’ DISCONTENT

Sydney, July 5.

The ballot of the postal and telegraph employees of the Commonwealth with regard to certain grievances, the chief of which was the broken shift rate of pay, unanimously resulted in favour of extreme action in the event of the Government’s failure favourably to consider their claims.

COASTAL SEAMEN’S WAGES

(Received. 6, 9.5 a.m.) Sydney, July 6.

The Coastal Steamship Owners’ Association estimate that the recent rise in wages will cost the .companies an additional £50,000 yearly.

READY-MADE OR BESPOKE

AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. Wellington, July 5. The reserved judgment of the Arbitration Court in the case Millar and Giorgi v. W. J. Culver, inspector of awards, was lodged with the clerk of awards to-day. “The appellants,” said the court, “are retail drapers and clothiers in Palmerston North. They offered for sale to a customer a ready-made suit of clothes. The customer said he would take the suit if the trousers were shortened a little. The appellants sent the trousers to a master tailor in Palmerston North, 1 who made the required alterations, in his own premises. The transaction was simply the sale of a ready-made suit of clothes, subject to an alteration being made therein. They therefore did not commit any breach of the award, by having the alteration made off their own premises, and the appeal is allowed with costs.