SOUTH ISLAND TROUBLES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 12 July 1912, Page 5

SOUTH ISLAND TROUBLES

REEFTON, July 11. No arrangement regarding arbitration was come to, and the case was resumed. No evidence was taken, the warden granting protection for three months, subject to the company moving the Arbitration Court within 14 days, the three months' protection to lapse 14 days after the decision.

Counsel for- the Inangahua Miners' Union (Mr P. J. O'Regan) would not consent.

The question of costs was held over TIMARU, July 11.

The wharf workers' strike over two non-unionist railway hands was settled to-day. Ma- Seniple interviewed the stationmaster and the two men, and an agreement was arrived at that they show Id withdraw from the Railway Servants' Society and join the Waterside Workers' Union, but to remain as special railway workers, to be sent from \ wharf to wharf as the station master ! required, instead of being amenable to the union. A rule was incorporated that a man must finish a boat he started on before going to another. Work will lie resumed to-morrow. It was not possible to-day, owing to heavy rain. One non-unionist tally clhrk will be objected to in turn. Notioe has been given that lie must join the union, or be put off under a threat that no work will be done. The union claim that they have raised wages, benefiting all. and that it is unfair that a few should not contribute to the unian funds. eHRISTCHUR-CH. July 11. An agreement was arrived at before the Council of Conciliation in the hairdressers' and tobacconists' assistants' dispute, on the following basis: Fiftytwo hour,-, per week, not later than R p.m. cm three days, not later than 6 p.m on »ne day. not later than 1 p.m. o»i the weekly half-holiday, and work to cease at 9.15 n.m. on Saturdays. Mifiiuium nag-e. £2 15s. DUNEDIN July 11. Tiie executive of the Otago Co«l Miners' Association has called a lreetimr of the Kaitangata members of the union for Saturday evening, to receive the answer of the directors and consider the future coarse of action. Mr Semple, organiser of the Federation of Labor, and another member of the execative will he present.