WORK AND WAGES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15921, 6 May 1912, Page 7

WORK AND WAGES.

TAILORS ON STRIKE. United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 3

About 15,000 tailors are on strike, including machinists and pressors, and about 50,000 men and women will be thrown idle in London to-morrow. PICKETERS FINED.

Fifteen picketers were fined £2 each on charges of intimidation in connection with the dispute at the motor works at Letchworth.

THE, OLYMPIC'S FIREMEN. (Received May 6, 12-30 a.m.) LONDON, May 5. The magistrates found the Olympic's fifty-three firemen guilty, but said that it was inexpedient to punish them, remembering the special circumstances arising from the Titanic disaster.

THE 'ANTHRACITE COAL DISPUTE. NEW YORK, May 3.

A tentative agreement, providing a basis for the settlement of the anthracite coal dispute, has been rejected, the mine workers refusing to accept tho proposals. About 170,000 men are still idle.

LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN.

NEW YORK, May 3

The Locomotive Firemen's Union is now demanding increases of wages on a scale commensurate with that secured by the engineers. The railroad managers declare that the men's demands mean an additional £5,000,000 on the wages bill.

CLOTHING TRADE CONFERENCE. [Fkom Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, May 4. The clothing trade employees' conditions for the whole dominion are to be settled at a conference in Wellington on May 29 between the representatives of the employers and tho industrial unions. The joint conference is to be preceded by a gathering of the workers' representatives on May 27.

THE GREEN ISLAND MINERS. [From Ouk Correspondent.'] DUNEDIN, May •!.. It is probable that the mining dispute at Christie's colliery will swell to a strike on the part or the miners employed in the Green Island district, about 100 workers. As far as can be ascertained, neither side in the original trouble intends to yield. The Green Island branch of the Otago Coal Miners' Union held a meeting last night, at which the nien decided " That we, the miners at Green Island, do herebv pledge ourselves to stand solidly Tby our comrades who are out at Christie's No. 2 mine, and that wo are determined to take every step necessary to get the relief desired by our fellow-workers." The men hold to tho opinion that what' they ask is reasonable, and the owners are equally convinced that they have done everything within reason to meet the men's demands for better trucking roads. It is understood that if the dispute is not settled soon the New Zealand Federation of Labour will take charge of matters. What at one time seemed a trivial dispute is threatening to become an upheaval of a useful industry.