LABOUR MATTERS

Southland Times, Issue 16841, 18 September 1911, Page 5

LABOUR MATTERS

THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT. BEN TILLETT’S THREAT. [By Telegraph.—Press Association,—Copyright.} LONDON, Sept. 17. Received Sept. 18, 12.50 a.m. Mr Ben Tillett at Southampton, referring to the Osborne Judgment, said he was prepared to recommend complete national stoppage unless freedom of combination and management of their own funds were granted to trades unions. RECENT BRITISH STRIKES. THE LOSS IN WORK. LONDON, Sept. 16. Received 17, 5.5 p.m. No less than 2,323,000 individual working days were lost in Britain during August owing to strikes in which 373,615 workers were involved. .BRITISH RAID-WAY TROUBLE. THE CASE FOR THE COMPANIES. LONDON, September 15. Sir Charles Owens, general manage? of the London and South-Western Railway, giving evidence before the Railway Commission, said that the men’s programme would involve his company in an additional expenditure of £290,000 annually. Not 10 per cent, of his men. were unionists. He would strenuously, oppose recognition of the unions which.' would not prevent strikes. He objected to see the unions brought into a position which would make them superior ta Parliament / LONDON, September 16. Received September 17, 5.5 p.m. . y , Sir Charles Owens, in the course off evidence, added that his staff did not want conciliation or interference by unions. The latter wanted recognition: in order to compel pon-unionlsts to join* He would do his utmost to prevent tha staff from becoming the victims of such tyranny. ” THE WHEELERS’ STRXXS. SYDNEY, Sept. 15. . The position at Newcastle is uur* changed. The wheelers show no incltnation to resume work. The new Lamb tom and -Seaplt mines will be idle on Monday, the wheelers’ notices expiring to* day. THE TROUBLE AT LITHGOW. COMPLICATIONS. SYDNEY, Sept 16. , An engine and truck were derailed at Llthgow ironworks siding. It Is stated that the fish plates were removed, and a bolt placed between the points. Thirty cadets at Llthgow refused td drill on the ground that some other, cadets were working with non-unionists* STRIKES SETTLED. , SYDNEY, Sept 17. Received Sept 18, 12.50 a_m. The wheat handlers’ strike has been settled and the threatened strike off coaj lumpers has been averted. The men demanded an increase in payment for night work. As the result off lengthy negotiations the shipping companies yesterday conceded an from Is 9d to 2s 3d per hour, FIGHTING AT BILBAO. MADRID, Sept IB.' , It is reported that severe street fight** ing has taken place a Bilbao but ho details are available. • The trouble is spreading to Malaga on the Mediterranean coast. Miners at Oviendo dynamited the railway bridge. THE “ DEMERIT” SYSTEM. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 16. n At a meeting of the Tramway Employees’ Union delegates to the Trades Council, the delegates were instructed to ask the Council to approach the Government with a .view to having a danse inserted In the Tramways, Act making It impossible to have such a system as tha “demerit system," as known in Canterbury in particular, applicable to any, i public service In the Dominion. - Mr J. Young, Secretary of the Tramway Employees’ Union, who left for Wellington to-night, was instructed to interview the members of the Federation there, asking for their co-operation in obtaining an award for the whola Dominion.