TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13210, 17 February 1905, Page 5

TRADES AND LABOUR.

A PARTIAL STRIKE. Pres3 Associnlion—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, February 15. (Received F«b. 16, at 8.5 a.m.) The Employers' Federation of Liverpool is importing hands from other ports, owing to a partial strike, of. the dockers against the employment of non-unionists. RESUMING WORK. BERLIN, (February 15. (Received Feb. 16, at 8.31 a.m.) Out of a quarter of a million strikers in Ruhr, four-fifths have resumed work. TREATMENT OF SEAMEN. SYDNEY, February 16. (Received Feb. 17, at. 0.59 a.m.) The evidence before the Navigation Commission reveals ibat there is a considerable amount of " shanghai-ing" cf seamen ot Newcastle. AMALGAMATED WORKERS' UNION. The Australian Workers' Union lias completed amalgamation for the whole Comr.onwealth. The new executive meets tolionw to consider its policy and rcgisiation under the federal Arbitration Act. the new organisation controls 20,000 Yorkers. WELLINGTON FURNITURE TRADE. (Per TJifiTßn Phfiss Association.) ■WELLINGTON, February 16. At ii meeting of the Conciliation Board o-day it was intimated that the dispute n the furniture trade had been amicably ettled at a conference of the employers nd the union, and the board was asked to icorporate the result in an industrial agree--lent. Tho chairman of the board comiililentcd tho parties on the jocd fcelimr iown in so settling the matter, ami a dd»d lat tho moral effect' of this result would ndotibtedlv be felt' in tho country districts, ! which the board had now to take the we.