VARIOUS MATTERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 7 March 1912, Page 5

VARIOUS MATTERS.

INCREASED WAGES GRANTED. OTT-AWA, Wednesday. The: master carpenters at Toronto, under threats of a strike, grafted a considerable increase in wages. VIENNA, Wednesday. The miners in Bohemia have obtained a 25 per cent. incr^se. END OF SYDNEY WHARF trouble. SYDNEY, Wednesday. . The settlement of the strike at Brisbane ends the trouble at Sydney. A meeting of wharf labourers to-night decided to work all 'boats and all cargoes to-morrow. Large quantities of goods for Brisbane are awaiting shipment. PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS. SYDNEY, Wednesday. The Council deleted, from th e Industrial Arbitration Bill the preference to unionists clause as one of the .matteis •upon which the Board might make an award. EIGHT-HOUR RAILWAY DAY DEMANDED. (Received 9.50 a.m.) # SYDNEY, This Day. A meeting is to be held to appoint a deputation to the Railway Commissionei in regard to an eight-hours day. Unl'ess a satisfactory answer is received a strike is threatened. ; PROMOTION OF NON-UNIONISTS. (Received 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The President of the Sydney District Amalgamated Lngineers Society com- ' plains that since the Labour Government • came into power, what appears to be a • system of organised promotion of nonunionists over unionists has been in ' vogue. It looks, he says, as if the Go- : vernment was aiming a blow at unionism.

A NEW BRAND. "ASIATIC LABOUR." (Received 11.40 a.m.) '. PERTH, This Day. The- Government- has approved of the regulation requising furniture made or partly made by Asiatics to be branded "Asiatic Labour" in a prominent place. WELLINGTON TRAMWAYMEN PROCEEDED AGAINST. W ELL INGT ON, We dnesd ay. The Labour Department has commenced proceedings against members of the Wellington Tramway Union as a body for a breach of the- Arbitration Act in going out on strike Recently. MINE OWNERS' DISPUTE. WEST PORT ~ Wednesday The conference was resumed to-day between the mine owners' representa tives, and the deputies from the miners, and it is understood that fair progress was made with the, new agreement. Both parties concerned are hopeful of an amicable settlement. A SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE. WESTPOPvT, This Day. The conference between the representatives of the Coalowners', Association and the delegates of deputies engaged in the coal mines of th<> West Coast, . made a mutual agreement. The chief dSjriand of the deputies, was an advance on their present rates of wages (12s 6d per day) to 13s 4d, with overtime. ..The claim was ccpmpromised ou the basis of a weekly wage of £4. A satisfactory agreement was corrie to. AMALGAMATED RAILWAYMEN. SUPPORT A "UNITY" SCHEME .WELLINGTON. Wednesday. The attitude of. the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants towards the labour movements, -in; general .was the question -dealt .with at to-day's conference of the. railvvaymen's organisation. It was ultimately: decided to give conditional support to the "unity" scheme put forward .by Professor Mills, and the Trades~and .Labour Council. A long j cussion. took -place, and, the delegates were unanimous in. the opinion that Professor Mills' unity, scheme was, one, that would, wiCh some slight alteration,, merit the support of all' working class organisations, and that-,, as they were,.one.of the largest, of those organisations,: it '-was their duty to give practical -assistance-vin bringing the proposals of that. scheme into effective operation. In. doing, this they were but assisting others to assist themselves. The following.resolutions were unanimously agreed to: . (1) That the.amity scheme be commended to the members of the A.S.R.S. ; (2) That a vote be taken of .the whole of the Society on the question of . joining, the scheme; (3) That the. delegates- : .b& appointed provisionally to attefod the' Easter conference; (4) That such delegates.- be instructed, that in the event of- any pror posal being carried that would .involve the disintegration of .the A.S.R.S. as at present constituted, . they are. to; with-, draw forthwith, and not commit, our members to the scheme .or any part of it. The Government is to. be asked to .grant the right to the A.S.R.S. to give -effect to these proposals. . , WESTPORT, Wednesday. A movement iq tafoot amongst the gangers, surfacemen, and labourers in the railway service at Westport to break away from, the A.S.R.S., and form a separate society. . ■