LABOR AFFAIRS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12214, 2 August 1910, Page 5

LABOR AFFAIRS.

Sf . . .- ■ , \ (Press Assn.— By — Copyright) i OTTAWA, August 1. 8 The Grand Tr,unk / (Canada) railway authorities are prepared to raise wagesIby 15 por cent., and a. settlement of the ? strike is probable, ■ ' , j (Received August 2, 8.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 1. ? Troops have left. Toronto and London - for Bridgebor, wliei;e riots have occurred ; m cjonireclion with the Grand Trunk raili way strike. -■••■■ I ' ' LONDON, August 1. D There i* grave unrest among railway r . workers, especially on the Great North- » em, Great Eastern, arid 'North-eastern s lines. The men are dissatisfied with 5 MacDonnell's- and GoreH's awards, and , with the companies' interpretation of x the Durham agreement.' f Owing to "numerous injunctions the « Labor party is m considerable financial . anxiety, and. has resolved on an autumn campaign to elicit public support. The » recent actions notr only seek to. restrain > societies using compulsory* \ but also > voluntary, levies, and the machinery of * unions for political purposes. . > •' . : ... SYDNEY; August 1. , -The Southern Collieries i Wages Board . has given an award. Amongst the : men's demands conceded are eight hours .'" bank to bank for miner*, preference to '* .unionists, ■ And' bther concession' m regard to cavilling, working machines, > and payment for I ' pillars and slab's? while ■ other iablor than miners has sectored a reduction of hpurs tu.niue fit>m b\inktp : ; bank, .and, a flight .increase m.^ wages,; *' "1 he president; of the, CbtUmiuers*; £im--1 ployes' Association rays, that the aware) is very satisfactory. ♦The men have not got all they .wanted, but have made &'\ substantial ? improvement. > : ' " HOKITIKA, last night. In .connection, .with .the* demande^made , by the .workmen employed at the' Ross „ (Joldtields iminc, a. conferenco -was held 3 yesterday to consider: the proposals submitted, by the company, representing the . ultimate terms the Jatter. is prepared, to 3 concede. At the •■conclusion! of the conj ference, which several, of the directors j- of^the company attei^dEd^ the men m: a timated that, they .. wouAd < continue .work j for the present •■week,;. under, the revised working conditions, the actual alteration of which have .not been disclosed, but ? - the existing^arran'getrient is not looked, *. tipon m the light of ii final Settlement. •■ The directors of the company will hold J a special meethigi to-morrow i morning to ■t consider the' matters .upon, which* ho \ agreement ."has. yet b(ien arrived at. 1 * GREYJMWTH, last night. , ~. The Paparoa moneys intimate thut they are prepared, to. start work to-morrow * morning on condition th*t the manager deposits tw.ehty, four . shillings .to be re- * fuuded if Smcatonund H«Vris, after iu--5 qqiry by a direct(Of of the Paparoa Comp -puny, are found guilty oft wilful neglect.