WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14915, 10 February 1909, Page 7

WORK AND WAGES.

THE RAILWAY AWARD. MR R. BELL’S ADVICE. United Press Association —By Eiectrio Telegraph—Copyrigh t. LONDON, February 8. Mr R. 8011, M.P., secretary to the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, is disappointed at Sir Edward Fry’s award, and urges the railwaymen to organiso their finances in order to present insistent demands in 1913. WEST COAST MINERS. [Per Press Association'.] WESTPORT, February 9. The mines in this district, Westport Coal Company, Westport-Stockton Company and Seddonville State mine, are working smoothly. The _ WestportStockton Company ie not insisting on medical examination. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, February 9. The Arbitration Court ratified the agreements entered into in respect of the tinsmiths and sheet-metal workers’award and the hotel proprietors, fish shop, restaurant and tea-room omplbyees. A largely-attended meeting of the Dressmakers’ Union was held at the Trades Hall last evening, the president), Mrs Wilson, in tho chair. The evening was mainly devoted to discussion of proposals regarding wages and general conditions of work, the tailorcases and pressera’ award being taken as a basis. It was decided to bold another meeting on the following Monday.