LABOUR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 18 March 1913, Page 5

LABOUR

LONDON PAINTERS THREATEN TO STRIKE. tPBBSS ASSOCIATION. COPYBIOHT.) LONDON, March 171 Eighteen thousand house' pointers in London threaten to strike for an extra l£d'an hour, and a fifty-four hour week. AUSTRALIAN ARBITRATION ACT. SYDNEY, March 17. His Honor Mr Justice Heydon, speaking in the District Court, said the. cost of administering the Arbitration Act was enormous. He warned unions that the situation was really serious. It was very important that they should prevent strikes, a,nd settle disputed" conditions peaceably; but if they could not prer vent strikes, and the' 'cost became tooheavy, the whole system might break •down. The public might: think the price too great, and that they had'gone from the fryingpan into the fire. SYDNEY GAS WORKERS. (Rec. 9.5 a.hi.) SYDNEY, This Day. As the sequel to . the strike, the Gas Employees' Union, with,the assent r o£ the companies, applied \a the Arbitration Court for the cancellation of the present agreements between the parties with a view to substituting a Wages Board. The hearing is unfinished. MELBOURNE GA SWORKERIS' PRESENT CLAIMS.,./.;.. (Rec. 9.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Following the lead of Sydney, the gas employees presented a claim to the Arbitration Court involving' better workin tr conditions and higher wages. WHEAT L'OAJDING AGAIN BLOCKED. (live. 9.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The loading of wheat- ships-in Darling Harbour has. again' been blocked, the wharf labourers •declining to work with casual hands. W ELLINGTON SL A UG-HTTS R M EN. WELLINGTON. March 17. The Arliilartiun Court has filed a derision in the appeal by tin: Ngahauranga Slaughtermen's-Union atrainst the Registrar's refusal to register" it. The Court upheld the appeal!'' Mr McCullough, the emuloyees" representative on the Court, did not concur in. the judgment, holding that the members of the new union could qpnyenieritly belong to the existing Wellington Union.