WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9429, 2 June 1891, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

THE DISPUTE IN THE BOOT TBADBjj The difficulty which has recently existed! between the firm of Walker, Reeve ; «ad[ Co., of this city, and the Boofcinakors*;' Union has been amicably settled. ,

——» A j [Peb Pbess Association.] I AUCKLAND, Jum I. J At the request of the President fi th® Auckland Typographical Union, W- Sharaj intends to communicate with tb* Gw®®*!-, ment, asking that Auckland printers out[ of work may share with' Wellington printers in getting work at t l * Government Printing Office during the session. . '

THE QUEENSLAND' SiIEABERS. •’

fEEOM OTO OWN COEEESpOMDBKX.] Melbourne, H*.y37. j; The Pastoral Association has baen em* ployed in engaging free labour,, and tha offices have been beeieged_ by Considerably more labour is offering-than* is required, . Sixty-six carriers whofleretedj from the Union started loading at Barcslo dine at the usual rates. The old vUnionJ which commenced the policy of cutting! , down, has telegraphed to the Pastoral is ta*| Association offering to carry at reduced rates. Forty of the military from dine, and thirty from Clermont, ace re*, turning home. Official information has been received; that the free labourers employed at th® Coreina Station struck work in constH. quence of theemployment of two Unionists. They decided that until it was mutually; agreed that there should be freedom oil contract, they would not work with. Unionists. As they were firm in decision, the Manager was compelled to discharge the two men taken on. A Barcaldine telegram says A large camp of Unionists here will break up thia week, and remove to a new site at Alios river. Meat and rations will be supplied wholesale at the camp, and paid for in cash received as strike pay. , All Unionists arej expected to join this, camp, and when th« remainder of the -strikers ..arrive from Clermont there will be sixteen hundred Unionists in the camp. The money r*» ceived from the south is reckoned Buffidenh to pay the weekly expenses, and there is not the least doubt that the men will remain quietly in camp so long as money 'is sent from the southern colonies. THE WORKAT PAHIATUA. The Wellington Post writes as follows There seems to be an impression abroad, to which one or two newspapers have given rise, that some of the unemployed sent by; the Government to Pahiatua have left theurj work, through being tired of it.. So far u; we can leam the idea is quite without foundation. The Government department* are only aware of one young man who has! returned, and he was obliged to do taj because he was seized with fover/and is nowj in the Hospital. Others of the party have written to their friends in Wellington thatt. they are satisfied with the work, though ife* is hard, and they appreciate the kindness shown by the Government. Altogether about ninety men are now engaged on th« roads, one or two small batches having;, been sent up since the original party wentl All their work is done by contract. Th*" Government officers calculate the value of) each section of tree-felling or excavation to| be done, at the rates usually paid for such) work, and then offer it to p gang of men in! the lump sum. Government continues to: procure the necessaries of life for the men' —seeing that they are unknown in tha district, and so are not likely to obtain credit as yet—and will do so until the tint® comes for drawing their first pay.