WORLD OF LABOR.

Mataura Ensign, 13 May 1912, Page 3

WORLD OF LABOR.

THE NEWSPAPER STRIKE. SCENES IN~NKW YORK. NEW YORK, May 11. Employees of tho newspapers attacked the newsboys because they were selling papers issued' by non-union workers. Many arrests have been made. EXTENDING TO SAN~FRANCISCO. NEW YORK, May 11. Pressmen in several newspapers in San Francisco walked out in sympathy tho Chicago strikers. The issue of newspapers is restricted. RIOTS IN PENNSLYVANIA. NEW YORK, May 10. Miners on strike, at Scranton', Pennsylvania, broke a police cordon, which was surrounding strike breakers, and j mishandled many of the latter. They I flung bricks and used clubs, a fierce melee resulting for half-an-hour. Several strikers were fatally hurt. Troops finally came to the policemen's rescue. Women took a prominent part in the attacks on the nolice. Six were arrested. The disturbances were chiefly fomented by a foreign element. THE BRITISH MINERS. SERIOUS DEMAND REJECTED. LONDON, May 12. A small majority of the South' Wales Miners' Executive rejected the demand for a national stoppage, including railwayman and transport workers, and a proposal that the Labor Party should obstruct all Parliamentary business until a living wage was included in an Act of Parliament and royalties \ven> j abolished. [ The South Wales Federation confirmed the Executive's recommendation to abstain from taking part in the proceedings of the District Board, pending a conference between tho Miners' Federation of Britain on May 21. The newspapers recall the fact that clause 4 allows Lord St. Aldwyn (on whose casting vote the South' Wales Conciliation Board decided, that colliery laborers should l>e paid 4s 2d to 4s 9d daily, representing an advance of threepence) to fix a minimum independently even if the miners refuse to be represented. Tlie South Wales Miners' Council has decided not to participate further on the Coal Board, presided over by Lord St. Aldwyn. STRIKE SETTLED. SYDNEY, May 11. The strike in the State coal mine at Wonthaggi has been settled by mutual agreement. LINKING UP THE MINERS. ' MELBOURNE, May 12. j The Wonthaggi coal miners' ballot favored linking up with the New Zea-1 land miners by 3G3 votes to G. ASIATIC COMPETITION. AUCKLAND, May 12. When consulted upon the question of the threatened establishment of Chinese cabinet-making factories in New Zealand, the secretary of the Auckland branch of the 'Federated Furniture Trades Industrial Association of Workers said that his union has been taking active steps in a quiet ; w-ay for about a month past in connection with the matter. The result was that furniture workers right throughout New Zealand were now prepared to take united action. Everyone who had been seen had signed a guarantee to support the southern protest against the threatened Asiatic invasion. SCARCITY OF LABOR. GISBORNE, May 12. A great scarcity of labor in all branches is reported. This may probably be attributed in a large measure to the extension of public works by the Government and to the large; amount of other work that is being carried out in the district.