WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9700, 14 April 1892, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

F Special to Press Association.] LONDON, April H. In the election for the Secretaryship of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Mr J. Antrim, Interim Secretary, defeated Mr Tom Mann. The Government has refused to compensate the man Hood, who was dismissed from the Cambrian Railway for giving evidence before a Parliamentary Committee. LONDON, April 12. The owners of the cotton mills at Hey wood, in Lancashire, have given notice to 2500 of their employees. They have been compelled to take this step because of the strike at the Staleybridge Oil Mills. SYDNEY, April 13. The Trades and Labour Council is preparing a petition, for signature throughout Australia, to be presented to the British Government, protesting against the employment of Kanaka labour in Queensland. WELLINGTON, April 13. The Government will provide free passes for not more than six delegates to the Trades and Labour Conference at Dunedin. In connection with the strike of compositors and machinists at the Napier Evening News office, the Secretary of the Canterbury Typographical Association last evening received a telegram which seems to indicate a speedy and amicable settlement of the difficulty. The Secretary of the Executive Council of the New Zealand Typographical Association leaves Wellington to-day for Napier to investigate the matter, and in the meantime all proceedings are stayed.