WORK AND WAGES.
[Special to Press Association.! [Received Sept. 5, at 10.45 a.m.] LONDON, Sept. 4.
Mr T. Mann has been appointed Secretary to the Amalgamated Engineers’ Society. [Received Sept. 6, at 5.40 p.m.] Sept. 5:
Mr T. Burt, M.P., Secretary of the Northumberland Miners’ Association, will preside at the Trades Union Congress, which opens at Newcastle* on-Tyne on Monday. The congress of colliery managers has carried resolutions strongly opposing a statutory eight hours’ work in mines.
There is renewed agitation among the employees of the Omnibus Companies, and a strike is threatened. It is alleged that the Companies are infringing the agreement arrived at after the last strike.
The Tyne shipbuilders have decided to reduce in October the wages of ten thousand men by sper cent. [Received Sept 7, at 12.50 a.m.] Sept. 6.
Five hundred delegates, representing two million workers, will attend the congress at Newcastle. The Trade Union Congress, sitting in London, will give a solid vote on .the eight hours question. PARIS. Sept 6.
A labour dispute is occurring in the woollen factories in the North of
France.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9512, 7 September 1891, Page 5
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