WORLD OF LABOR.

Mataura Ensign, 14 January 1914, Page 5

WORLD OF LABOR.

LEED STRIKERS APPEASED. BT KLKCTUIC TELEGRAPH COFTEIGHT. PER UNITED PRKBS ASSOCIATION. Received) January 14, 9.0 a.m. LONDON,, Jan. 13. The Leeds Corporation has promised to reinstate the workers dispensed with and 1 consider claims for increased wages. The strikers have accepted the offer.

MELBOURNE WATERSIDERS.

Received January 14, 10.45 a.m. MELBOURNE, Jan. 14. A conference of the Steamship Owners' Association and the Waterside Workers' Federation lias opened to consider claims under the new log, including a demand of 2s per hour for waterside workers. The conference was adjourned until Thursday to enable the employers to discuss the claims.

HOBART PRINTERS' DISPUTE,

Received January 14, 10,45 a.m. HOBAitlTj Jan. 14. Another conference of the parties in the printing dispute proved futile. I UNEMPLOYED IN ITALY. Received January 14, 12.10 p.m. ROME, Jan. 13. Official unemployment statistics show that as a result of the Tripoli war there, is an alarming increase in the unemployment in many towns. Twenty-five to 50 per cent, are out of work and the wintry weather is increasing the crisis. More men have emigrated in the halfyear than during the whole of the previous year. WELLINGTON WATERSIDERS. WELLINGTON, Jan. 14. The executive of the Wharf Laborers' Union will probably come to a decision to-day as to what attitude it will take up regarding two requisitions from who are members of the union asking for a special meeting of the union to be called for Saturday. One of the requisitions asks that the union shall consider proposals that three members of the union be appointed to take charge of the union's books and subject them to a thorough investigation and that pending the investigation the secretary be suspended and two acting secretaries be appointed, to hold office for such period as the union, at a general meeting, may decide. The executive states that it is anxious to abide by the spirit in which the union was formed and to carry out the rales of the union. It intended at 'any meetings to decide all questions by balloting. Regarding the matter of increased police supervision on the wharves Mr R. Fletcher, the chairman of the Harbor oßard, states that in normal times it will not be necessary to increase the waterfront police. Very little trouble or pillaging occurred in the ordinary course of events and two policemen were sufficient to patrol the wharves.