TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 21

TRADES AND LABOUR.

STRIKES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. London, July 5. So far 5000 members of the Amalgamated Engineers' Association in London have struck. Although the councils of the Boilermakers and Shipbuilders' Societies declared against the strike, many members of the two societies have come out to support the engineers. The employers of the engineers in Glasgow are arranging for a lock-out. The funds of the Amalgamated Engineers total L 360.000. July 6. The employers have served notices of lockout upon 25,000 engineers. The lock-out affects Woolwich, Bolton, Clyde, Sunderland, Leicester, and the North-East Coast. July 11. The amalgamated engineers on strike , demand not only that the day's work be

I eight hours, but that wages shall not be and that all work done beyond 48 ■j houra per week shall be paid for at extra or ' o\ ertima rates. • ; New York, July 5. j A great strike has occurred among the men S employed in the coal mines in the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois, owing to a refusal to grant an increase of vrages. A quarter of a million of miners are ! involved in the strike. THE COURT OF ARBITRATION. Chbistchukch, July 6. At the Arbitration Court to-day the recommendations of the Conciliation Board in the I matter of the building trade dispute were j accepted, except as to clause 1, which was , eventually agreed upon in the following form :—: — j " That the minimum wage for tradesmen oomr petent for the work in which they be employed be 10s per day ; men who are considered to be I unable to earn the minimum w*ge shall be paid I a lesser sum, if aDy, as the committee of 1 employers and workmen (which this board | snggest should be set up for the purpose of ! settling minor disputes) shall agree npon. or, i if the committees cannot agree, an shall be fixeu ! by the chairman of the Board of Conciliation."' The award comes into operation to-day for two years. Cheistchurch, July 9. The Court of Arbitration concluded its sittings to-day. The award in the bootmakers' caseß was practically in accord with the recommendations of the Bot.rd of Conciliation. In the painters' case the employees practically . gained the day. Mr Gapes, the defendant, claimed that his was. strictly a non-union shop, and that he did not recognise the union in any way. It was proved in evidence, however, that he had been president of the Master Painters' Association, and as that'bssociation had signed an agreement with the Workers' Union, the court held that he was morally bound by the acts of his association, and that he should be bound by its obligations. This award w»b also practically in terms of the recommendations of the Board of Conciliation. No costs were allowed. .