WORLD OF LABOR.
NON-UNIONIST QUESTION. MLNERi r NOTICE. BI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYItIUET PEE DNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. . Thirty thousand North Staffordshire ' miners will tender a fortnight's notice ; on Saturday owing to the non-unionist > question. The stoppage will involve the [ pottery manufactories. ' DESPERATION IN DUBLIN. ' LONDON, '25. The Dublin Castle authorities have in- ■ vited Sir George Askwitli (Chief liwlus- , trial Commissioner) to mediate, as the . Ftriko situation is becoming desperate. Many women and children are begging in the streets. Two hundred builders' laborers are locked out for refusing to renounce the union, causing hundreds of skilled workers to become idle. SAILORS' UNION AND LOOK-OUT. LONDON, Sept. L's. 'Die Sailors ami Firemen's Union has contributed £SOO towards the Dublin lock-cut fund. BOYCOTT NO N-UNIONISTS,. LONDON. P-t>t. 2.1. Tho Abmlare oolliorS li&vo decided to resume bi:t will boycott non-unioni?ts. A HUGE GUARANTEE FUND. LONDON, Sept. 25. The United Kingdom Employers' Defence Union, formed to (secure, the inviolability of contracts against ;H";r.v>Sivo 'jrade union tsicf.ios, will raize a guarantee fund of £50,000,000. SAWMILLEP.S' CONFERENCE. PER UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. A conference of representatives of New Zealand sawnullo'rs mot to-day, Mr G. W. Haybitble, of the Kangitikei Sawmillers' Association, presiding. Among other things, the conference discussed tho housing accommodation emulations, conditions of employment as affecting engine-drivers, income tax, State sawmills and preference to unionists. No particulars were given as to tho proceedings, but a deputation will wait on tho Primo Minister on Saturday to placo before him the various representations arising out of the conference, which it was decided to make an annual event.
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Mataura Ensign, 26 September 1913, Page 2
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260WORLD OF LABOR. Mataura Ensign, 26 September 1913, Page 2
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