TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10902, 8 September 1897, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS. Press Associalion-By Telegraph-Copyright. London. September G. ' The Trades Union Congress is sitting i Birmingham, and is attended by 390 del ga Z. «pr«enttag. 250.00° workers. 1 committee has reported that tbejndg ' interpretations of the labour laws hai • endangered unionist movements. '■ The Dunediu Operative Tailors' Society h genflo every emplojer in the trade in town : Sar^mbndyi-g the demands, of it. ««»be ' i for an improvement in the conditions of th s i labour. A complete rearrangement of t, l- ■ preßout log is desired. <nd qtbor demands Ih . = a c made L the following i-A minimum wa of 10s a day, an ei^ht-hour day, one apprenti 3 to every shop, but not raora than one »pp»ent • toev«y five journeymen employed and ov. 1 time for pieceworkers at the rate oF 3d par ho \ extra up till 10 o'clock, 6d per hour from 10 012 ofclock, and after 12 o'clock Is per hour. n i THE ADDRESS-IN-RBPLY c \ emphasiMß the great sale in Frossard'sC«c i Cigars. Mild and fragrant. Pickets, 8 for 1, j .— ■ "r^fz^Tzaza ,c ! - The London and North-Western Rail* 3 ' Company conisuma 3500 tons of coal per duy,