TO-DAY'S CABLES. THE INDIAN TELEGRAPHICS' STRIKE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 April 1908, Page 3

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

THE INDIAN TELEGRAPHICS' STRIKE.

THE SYDNEY MARINE STRIKE. A SETTLEMENT. i . NON-UNIONIST TROUBLE AT NEWCASTLE. » _,—____ (Received 9.20 a.m.) ; SYDNEY, Tuesday. Tho waterside strike has been settled. The Seamen's Union has '. agreed to coastal .shipowners having a month to arrange for all non-union crews being brought together into six steamers. Meantime unionists and non-unionists will work together on !the vessels. Another labour trouble has cropped up at Newcastle, where 33 out of 38 , non-unionists employed on the Newj castle & Hunter River S.S. Co. 's boats have struck on the ground that under the new agreement they should be paid casual wages instead of weekly wages. Eleven hands returned to work, and the places of the others were filled by unionists. ( i

OBJECTIONS TO NEW EEGULA- ( TIONS. (Received April 14, 8.55 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Monday. The telegraphists on strike in India, who heretofore had three hours interval for sleep during the night watch, were ordered eight hours' continuous duty day or night. They objected, and asked an increase of 25 per cent. ■ pay. ; The Viceroy supports the proposaJ that Mr J. Newlands, the Deputy Controller of the British Post Office, ( bo sent to India with a view to ea- | forcing the new regulations. j » ■