TRADES AND LABOR.

Mataura Ensign, 9 November 1908, Page 3

TRADES AND LABOR.

THE LANCASHIRE TROUBLE ENDED. ENORMOUS COST OF THE STIUIvE. BV ELECTRIC TLMiOHACII. COPTI3IGUT. I'BU UNIIE1) I'Ki'SS ASSOCIATION LONDON, Nov. 7. The lock out jji the Lancashire cotton trade has been terminated. Tlio operatives lost £1,000,000 in wages, and spent £200,000 of the Trades' Union funds. The Employers' .Federation estimates that the total losses in the cotton strike are £7,000,000. THE SAWMILLING INDUSTRY. SLACKNESS Ob' TRADE. WELLINGTON, Nov. 8. A Taihape message states that the .situation in the sawmilliiig industry is becoming acute. Some mills have closwl down altogether, and others are working only live days per week. Millers are receiving scarcely any orders, and merchants are overstocked. This is due partly to slackness ot trade, but largely to the ini|iortalion 0 f Oregon pine. On Monday a third of the hands w ill be discharged from Uamman's mill at Oh;i kune. A mass meeting oi workers was held at Taihape on Saturday, the employers attending by invitation. The millers are reported to have satisfied the workers of the falseness of allegations that orders are being withheld to accentuate the depression, so as to got a heavier duty on Oregon pine. A joint committee of millers and workers is to go into the whole question.