WORK AND WAGES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10562, 17 September 1910, Page 4

WORK AND WAGES.

"By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.) LABOR DICTATES. Received September 16, at 10.20 p.m. London, September 16. Contrary to Air D. J. Shackleton's advice the Trades Union Congress, by one million one hundred and forty-seven thousand to two hundred and seventytwo thousand, condemned the Labor Exchanges as now managed, and demanded the communication to the trade union officials of the particulars and wages offered through the exchanges; secondly, the enforcement of trade union rates; thirdly, the. not filling of vacancies due to disputes. SWEATING IN IRELAND. London, September 16. Mr Joseph Devlin, Ai.P., 'in a letter to the Government, urges the institution of a public inquiry into sweating in the linen trade at Belfast. ■ THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT. London, September 16. Air D. J. Shackleton, on the Osborne debate, delivered a temperate speech. He recalled the success of the united labor movement in winning the Government to the Labor side in the Taff Vale judgment, also in getting the Government nearer them in the old-age pension and workmen's compensation. Ho hinted that he knew privately that nobody regretted the. Osborne decision more than the members of the Cabinet. The Daily News states that the growth of fecljiig over the Taff Vale and Osborne judgments shows a striking parallelism, and up to the present the latter was not the less imposing, but neither the Labor party nor anybody can expect Parliament to act in advance of public opinion, which is not yet converted. The Alorning Leader doubts if the angry debates in the Congress have forwarded the cause. There is no parity between the Osborne and Taff Vale decisions. As the House of Lords .would negative a reversal of the Osborne judgment, it would be an extravagant proposition to ask the Government to go to the country on the question wherein the Tories are solid, the Liberals divided, and the Trade. Unionists united. Received September 17, at 5.5 a.m. London, September 16. Tho Chronicle doubts if tho vote of the Labor Congress under the stirring influence of oratory -accurately reflects the considered Trade Union opinion. It argues that the political freedom of labor remains unaffected in everything except compulsory levies for Parliamentary purposes. Tho Chronicle, instead of a reversal, advocates tile State-payment of members and returning officers' fees. At the Trades Congress, Alessrs Morris (representing tho bricklayers of London) and Kirk (the railway men of AYcstham) were tho only speakers against; the Osborne resolution. TRADES UNION CONGRESS. Received September 17, at 9.30 a.m. London, September 16. The Trades Union Congress passed a resolution that it was cruel and inhumane to evict workmen and families from homes during trade disputes. They demanded that facilities be provided for students of 16 to 18 years to learn the theoretical s and practical .sides . of their trades, also the State maintenance of school children for free, se- ■ condary, and technical education. Re- . solutions were passed in favor of educa- . tioual endowments for the poor. COTTON DISPUTE. London, September 16. The Lord Mayor of Manchester has offered to arbitrate in tho cotton dispute, hut both sides are unyielding, pending the Cotton Spinners' Federa- | turn's meeting on Monday to decide whether there shall be a general lockout. SLAUGHTERAIEN'S STRIKE. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, .September 17. ; The Star predicts that the slaughter- \ men's dispute will be settled without 3 the intervention of the Court. It suggests an agreement on the basis of 1 20s a hundred and the eld conditions. \ THE SHEARERS' DISPUTE, i- Dunedin, September 17. t Air Pryor, secretary of the New Zea- "> land Employers' Federation last night i received the following telegram from 1 Air Frank Waddell, secretary of the - Canterbury Shearers' Union : "The s Shearers' Federation are taking a vote 1 on Saturday for' 22s (id per hundred. - What steps are you taking for settle- - ment? Urgent." Air Pryor replied:. "Employers will abide by' decision of the Arbitration Court."