WORK AND WAGES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10779, 30 May 1911, Page 4

WORK AND WAGES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) London, May 29. The Bradford woolcotnbers demand a general advance of 5 per centum in their wages, with a. minimum of 2os per week for night workers. The employers' reply i.s that throe advances have been given in four years, and their patience is exhausted. The trade disturbance.s were due to the persistent and often frivolous applications ol the operatives, and the masters would oppose lurther demands. Brisbane. May '2D. The gas companies have informed the Premier that they do not think it neeessarv to accept his suggestion and .submit the trouble to arbitration. The labor unions meet on Wednesday to consider the position and the suggested general .strike. Received .May 00. at 10.1(1 a.m. London. -May 'JO. The South Wales millers' delegates resolved to ask the National Conference of the Miners' Federation of Great .Britain to declare a national stoppage on the minimum wage question or to allow a general stoppage in "Wale's.