WORK AND WAGES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10957, 23 December 1911, Page 4

WORK AND WAGES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Coptright.] (Per Press Association.) MINING TROUBLES. Received December 22, at 9.30 p.m. London, December 22. The turbulence at Dundee continues. The strikers, are preventing the deliversof,coaK . There rioting during the evening. ! A,. crowd at the Caledonian railway station" stoned the police, and' the mounted police repeatedly charged, and eventually dispersed the mob. Four constables were taken to the hospital seriously injured. The Accrington strike was precipitated by the refusal of a man and his wife" to become unionists. The Blackburn mill-owners have instructed their delegates at the cotton workers' and spinners' conference to support a lock-out. •*" j The Durham coal miners have declined 'to accede to the demand of- the individual minimum wage, irrespective of the amount of work done. _ The Northumberland miners are dissatisfied with the Federation's refusal to,take action on the short-shift jyjpstion. This creates a set-back to tneir aggressive policy,-and will possibly lead to their withdrawal from the Federation. - Received December 23, at 10.20 a.tfi. London, December 22. Thirty mills at Dundee _ have been .closed because coal supplies are not available, and 30,000 hands have been -rendered idle. ,' The police had to make baton charges to-day. TRAMWAYMEN'S WAGES. Received December 23, at 0.15 a.m. Sydney, December 22. , The Wages Board's award operates from;~to-morrow. It will raise the Sydney tramway men's wages Is a day all round. . /PETER BOWLING DEFEATED. -':' '%i\ ;. Sydney, December 22. Mr> D.. Watson has been re-elected President of the Northern Miners' federation, defeating Peter Bowling heavily. WATERSIDE WORKERS. (Per Press Association--) Napier, December 22. The agents for the Whakatane (expected here early next week) have conceded the new demands of the waterside workers, but the Union Company is remaining firm, and have ordered the Wanaka to Dunedin. She left to-night with her cargo of coal undischarged.