TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13631, 28 June 1906, Page 7

TRADES AND LABOUR.

MINERS' WAGES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyiiiht, SYDNEY, June 27. (Received June 27, at 11.55 p.m.) At a meeting of Newcastle colliery proprietors it was resolved that as tliey are now paying on the basis of a selling price of 9s per ton they will not increase the wages of any class of labour until the selling price readies a figure in excess of 9s.

TROUBLES OF A LABOUR LEADER. (Per United Prfis a captation.) AUCKLAND. June 27. At a meeting of the Auckland Trades and Labour Connoif to-night, the Auckland Tailors' Union moved wliat was practically a vote of no-confidence in Mr A. Rosser (secretary) in the position he took up .in tho tailors' dispute at the Arbitration Court, when he appeared for tho Tailoresses' Union, who objected to pome of the men's demands. There was only a fair attendance, and the voting was equal, the president giving Ilia casting vote against the motion. '

TYPISTS AND THE SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT. The following petition, which explains itself, has been largely signed by Ihe female tvnists in Dunedin, and forwarded to Ihe Sccreatry for Labour, Wellington:— Dunedin, 19th June, 1906. The Secretary of Labour, Wellington. Dear Sir.—lt having come under our notice that your department is about to talce steps to enforce in Dunedin seetioii 28. subsection a of " The Shons and Offices Act, 1IIIH," we, the undersigned female typists of Dunedin, would respectfully beg to draw your, attention to the serious effect this would have on many female typists who are now employed jit remunerative wages, and who work under conditions ploasing lo themselves. 11l Dunedin there are at present somo 200 mercantile firms which cm-ploy one or two typists. For want of ronin, and owing to the Drainage Hoard regulations, or oii account of tile attitude of landlords, the great majority of tlie=e ore nnab'3 lo with the above section o! tho act. 17 your department insists noon an enforcement of the conditions as laid down, tile inevitable result will be that a great many of our numbers wi'l be thrown out of employment, and theiT places taken by male operators. 111 many instances tho-c who would 1 be thrown out would be compnllptl to leave well-paid positions and start life afresh. The market would be .chitted. and the unemployed would so compete with ono another for every vacancy that wages would drop to a mere pittance. The seriousness of the position, is our excuse for approaching your department, and we trust you will give the matter very careful consideration before doing anything that would have r.ueh serious cmisemiencos upon so many ef un who have many years in mastering a- catling that is both suitsb'o fo our sex and more profitable than any other open to us.—We remain, etc,