LABOR MATTERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12097, 15 March 1910, Page 5

LABOR MATTERS.

(Press Assn. — By. Telegraph I—Copyright)1 — Copyright) XO'NDON, March 14. The Northumberland .Miners'^Association" asked the owners to receive a deputation to consider an' eight hours' agreement. The OAvriers; declined, but are Avilling to discuss any other question. ' ■*.:.••- The -North-west- Engineering Employers' Association rejected the Clyde engineers': request for a 53 hours'' Aveek,l similar to that on the north-east coast. Router's Chicago correspondent states ; that 31,000 firemen "have demanded from 49 Western railroads control of promotions as a pre-requisite to 'arbitration concerning Avages. . ' , SYDNEY,/ March 14. The Industrial Court 'granted ' the . claim of the Free Laborers' Association to be represented on the Wages Board. The Wharf Laborers' Union, strongly opposed the "application... Judge Heydon, m granting it, said he thought it very ' singular that the , dismissal of the free Laborers at the central' wharf a fortnight ago \vas rendered possible by the faot' that the Act contained : no provision for protecting^ non-uriibriists against such treatment: [ Had unionists been disr missed -because they were unionists, instead of "ripn-unioriists being 'dismissed because they were non-unionists, the employers would; be liable to penalties ■aggregating. £55000. If the right to wdrk was. .[riot a right, which,, the laAV should protect, -it Ava shard to : - say what , was. To be a non-unionist was not an qfferice against the' [law. He was afraid that strong feeling would. : be " aroused, but -he came to the conclusion: tliat the free laborers' clairii must be - conceded. (Received March 15, ,10.5' a[.m.) ' , SYDNEY, March 15. Five Newcastle miners are still idle*— pending the settleihent of minor troubles. The Seamen's Union . during the coal and, coastal sti'ikes.pdid £11,500 tb members'out of work m addition to £67 paid ti (3ther Unions. ..'.''• NEWCASTLE, March 14. Work avos resumed at the rriino3 this morning. Hitches occurred at .sorhe collieries OA r er Avorking conditions. In. one or tAvo. cases they Avere [adjusted so as , to commence work. to-morroAy, There appears to be nbthinV m :th'e troubles tb preyent> a general re^Witnptidn pf Avork Avithin the next; day . or tAA'o. ,;