TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 25

TRADES AND LABOUR.

PARIS, May 13. The police admit that 100,000 men in Paris have struck for the eight-hour day, but the unionist authorities estimate the number of idle men at 165,000. BERLIN, May 9. A lock-out of 300,000, employees in the metallurgical trades in Germany takes place to-morrow. NEW YORK, May 8. The American anthracite coal miners' strike has ended, the award of 1903 having been prolonged for three years. The employees have been reinstated, except those who were guilty of violence. SYDNEY, May 14. The report of the Director of Labour for April shows a brisk demand for labour, while the number of unemployed in the city is comparatively low. WORK FOR IMMIGRANTS. WELLINGTON. May 9. Mr Mackay, of the Labour Department:, 6ays that all the men who arrived by the Tongariro, and who have applied for work on the railways, have been fixed up. and navvies to the number of 31 left for Ohakune by the morning's train. Farm and other labourers who arrived by the same steamer he hopes to find employment for within the. next day or two. The department had no notice of the coining of these men, and the supposition is that the advice was coming through by the mail that was stuck up at San Francisco through the recent disaster. DISSATISFACTION WITH THE ARBITRATION COURT. AUCKLAND, May 11. The Auckland Certificated Engine-drivers' Union, after a lengthy discussion, carried the following resolution, with one dissen"•*ent vote :j— " In vie.w of the unsatisfactory

award of the Arbitration Court in the Wellington Engine-drivers' dispute, in whioh 29 witnesses gave strong evidence supporting the union's demands, the union recognises the utter hopelessness of obtaining any betterment in the existing* conditions from the court at present. The union therefore instructs the secretary to withdraw the dispute now filed before the court, without prejudice to any future proceedings."