WORLD OF LABOR.

Mataura Ensign, 16 June 1914, Page 5

WORLD OF LABOR.

FUSION OF RAILWAYMEN. «1 MJtOTH.IO TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PBB UNITED .PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received June 16, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, June 15. Mr Bellamy, presiding at a meeting «f the National Union of Railwaymen atSwansea (Wales), said the fusion of railwaymen had already been justified and met with a most powerful response. The combined membership in 15 months had risen from 100,000 to 300,000. He would not be satisfied until the nonunionists were eliminated, but they must steadily resist Anarchist tendencies. FOR INDUSTRIAL UNREST. ■T BLSCTRIC TELEGA 'TH COPYRIGHT. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received June 16, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, June 15. The, Unionist Committee on Industrial Unrest, after two years' investigation, recommends the establishment of a Department of Labor under a Chief Com-, missioner, the latter to. be invested with power to intervene in a strike and to appoint a Board of Conciliation, anyone breaking an agreement sanctioned by the Commissioner to lose the oertainty ■•f a fixed wage. The committee recommends that sanction should be given to the masters' and workers' agreements in regard to wages ■ and & minimum wage should be fixed for different kinds of work. COLLIERY WORKERS' REQUEST. Received June 16, 9.50 a.m. NEWCASTLE, June 16. Replying to the Employees' Federation request for a conference, the Colliery Proprietors' Association states that if the men consider that the award conditions of employment can be changed when they think fit then there is very little hope of the conference serving any *seful purpose. RAILWAY WORKERS* RESOLVE. Received June 16, 9.50 a.m. SYDNEY, June 16. At a, meeting of the Railway Workers' Association it was decided not to accept, "the constitution of the newly-created Unions' Federation. MR TAFT ON TRADE UNIONS. Received June 16, 12.55 p.m. NEW YORK, June 15. Ex-President Taft, in an address at Harvard University, attacked the trade unions for their efforts to exempt themselves from the operations of the Sherman anti-trust law and also for supporting the Colorado strikers' excesses. Mr Taft declared that the unions were ■endeavoring to wea.kon the law in ord<>.. to punrsue their own end by violence, if necessary. Certain trades unions maintained actual rebellion again state authority.

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