WORLD OF LABOR.

Mataura Ensign, 27 September 1913, Page 2

WORLD OF LABOR.

DOCKERS RESUMING. j INQUIRY INTO CONDITIONS. ~BT BIJSCTBIO TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Sept. 20. The Manchester Ship Canal dockers V*re resuming work at the old rates, on condition that an inquiry will be held regarding the conditions as compared vwith otiher places, and tha.t favorable «'Consideration will be given to their betTierroent.

THE DUBLIN POSITION. LONDON, Sept. 26. The announcement that Sir George Ask-with (Chief Industrial Oommission- «•) ia going to Dublin has created a tnore cheerful spirit.

EMPLOYERS' GUARANTEE FUND. LONDON, Sept. 28. The WK'.pnsns of city opinion is that •fee £60,000,000 employers' defence guarantee scheme is insupportable, and calculated to multiply the existing friction.

REAL REMEDY FOR STRIKES. LONDON, Sept. 26. Hon. William Pember Reeves (formerly New Zealand's High Commissioner and now Director cf the London.' School of Economics) in an interview said that the real remedy for .-trikes was education and the adoption of the system in vogue in Australia and New Zealand of compulsory arbitration.

BELIEF IN THEIR MATES. SYDNEY, Sept. 26. Six of a gang of wharf laborers, who were discharging the steamer Berwick, have been arrested on a charge of alleged cargo pilfering. The balance of the wharf laborers employed on the steamer displayed a belief in the honesty of their mates by immediately ceasing work, and the discharging of the oargo was suspended.

DISSATISFIED WORKERS. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, Sept. 26. Thirty men engaged in preparing : ground for the permanent way of the! iiuntly-Awaroa railway ceased work j yesterday. The men allege that- not more than 8s per day call he earnedJ under the co-operative system there, and intend not only to leave- work but the district as well.