WORLD OF LABOR.

Mataura Ensign, 6 July 1914, Page 5

WORLD OF LABOR.

* MINERS' STRIKE INEVITABLE. BT IIiBCTSIO TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. ] PER UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Juiy 3. As the Scottish coalo.vnors'resist the men's decision to curtail the output a etrike in the autumn, is considered inevitable, especially since the owners' demand for a reduction in wages. STRIKE AT ARSENAL. 10.000 WORKERS INVOLVED. LONDON, July 4. Fiiteen hundred men havo struck at Woolwich Aisenal. following the dismissal of a filler' for refusing to erect some machinery because free laborers constructed th:- concrete bedding. Later! tins men picketed the arsenal. [ Ten thousand workers are involved, j 7000 STRIKERS. j Received Julv (5, 9.30 a.m. LONDON. July 5. ! There are 7C(X) strikers at Woolwirc | UNREST IN FRANCE. j PARIS, July 3. ! There is continue! lalmr unrest. ! Forty thou and members of the njjli-; tarv, naval, and Mortal administration! threaten to t-lrike unless they are granted 1 tho week-end as in England. Tlid railway, tramway, ami omnibus employees are adapting similar tactics to induce the Senate' t-j pass a, pension scheme. STONEMASONS TO RESUME. LONDON, July 4. Tl>« s*onemasom will resume work on Monday. DAY BAKINC. Received July 6, 0.15 a.m. SYDNEY, July 6." At a meeting of master bakers it was declared that day 'baking had proved disastrous. The public complaints were loud, while the output had decreased 15 per centum. REVERSION IN MELBOURNE. Received Juiv 6, 9.15 a.m. £j, MELBOURNE, July G. sjL' The onwativc bakers have agreed to §f&»rert to mgbt work with the limita■pwi of hours to eight.