TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 27

TRADES AND LABOUR.

NEWCASTLE COAL DISPUTE. SYDNEY, December 4. The special tribunal to deal with the Newcastle coal dispute has been officially constituted, and is expected to sit on Monday. COTTON WEAVING DISPUTE. LONDON, December 6. ■ Mr Lloyd-George has been thanked for his intervention, and for leading to a mutually satisfactory settlement the dispute regarding the cotton operatives' wages at Oldnam. SUPPRESSING SWEATING. LONDON, December 6. Lord Milner, at Oxford, advocated the ■eetaWishmenfc of wage** boards and » minimum wage for sweating industries. The State, he said, would thus do for the weakest what the organised trades did for themselves. , The Daily News (G.) applauds the speech, and urges the Government- to act. MINERS ON STRIKE. NEW YORK, December 6. Ten thousand Nevada miners haVe struck to enforce their d#mand for the recognition of 'their trade union. The troops have been called out and sent to the scene of the strike to preserve order. December 9. ; The troops which were despatched to Nevada have reached the scene of the miners' strike. An Attempt was made to blow up by dynamite the train conveying them, and the train narrowly escaped. , , [Ten thousand Nevada miners have struck to enforce their demand for the recojjnition of their trade union. The troops were sent to the scene of the strike to preeer\e order.] STRIKE AT BENDIGO. MELBOURNE, December 9. The miners at the Virginia mine, Bendigo, have struck against signing an agreement- providing for searching them. EUROPEAN LABOUR MARKET. ' ROME, December 5. Owing to the large reflux ofltalian emigration from the United States as a result of the financial crisis in that country, it .i& expected" there will be - 300,000 extra unemployed in Italy daring' the winter. The CounciPof. Emigration - at Rome proposes to* forward emigration to Western Australia. - LONDON, December 7. The Hamburg correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that 200,000 workers have returned to Europe from the United States, and tliat nearly 100,000 artisans who intended to proceed to America have decided to remain in Europe. It is expected that this great influx will result in labour difficulties.