WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12568, 1 August 1901, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

THE AMERICAN STEEL >STRIKE. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, Juiy 30. Tho Steel Trust recognises /that Union mills and a'.l mills are open to Unionists and non-unionists. Nobody will be discharged because he is a Unionist, The Amalgamated Association will not use its influence to get steel workers to join the Union. DUNEDIN CONCILIATION BOARD. [Per Press Association'.] DUNEDIN, July 31. On the Hairdressers' dispute coming before the Conciliation Board to-day, the Chairman suggested an adjournment, pending the decision by the Judge whether the Act applied to hairdressers. The employees having intimated their disinclination to abide by the decision in the Christchurch case, it was decided to go on with the evidence now being taken. The men ask that their hours should be from 8.30 till 6 p.m. on four days of the week, and on Saturday from 8.30 a.m. till 10 p.m., including meal hours, with a minimum wage of £2°los. Tie employers wish that the hours should be from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. on folir days of the week, and on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., with a minimum wage of £2. OHRISTC3UROH OPERATIVE BOOTMAKERS. At a well-attended special meeting of the Christchurch Operative Bootmakers' Socle* ty held last night, tho fo'dowing resolutions were passed:--"That the Government be heartily congratulated for the long-promis-ed amendments to the Factories Act, and the Union urges the- Right Hon the Premier, the city members and members for the surrounding district'to vigorously oppose any amendments',, in the direction of increasing the hours of labour to adult workers or the reduction of overtime or holidays. The Union are further of the opinion that the statements made by Mi Frostick. as set forth in this Biorning's "Press," are not in accordance with his statements made before representatives of the Bootmakers' Federation." The Union appointed a representative to go to Wellington to appear before the Labour Bills Committee to give evidence on the various labour measures now before Parliament. The Union also recommended to the members that they should, if possible, do a'.l their shopping before six o'clock on Saturday. At a meeting of the Canterbury Carpenters' and Joiners' Union a resolution was unanimously carried in favour of forty-four hours' work per week and other amendments to the Factories Act.