LABOUR MATTERS

Southland Times, Issue 17468, 7 October 1913, Page 6

LABOUR MATTERS

I.W.W-ISM; (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.; XEAV YORK, October 5. Boyd, a member of the Industrial Workers of the AA’orldl has been sentenced to seven years at Xew Jersey for delivering a speech advising the silk mill strikers to destroy goods, THU RAND DISPUTE. | JOHANNESBURG, October 5. | The Trades Federation agreed not to insist on their representatives attending the conference of mines owners, thereby removing the final obstacle to a conference. AA’ORKIXG AS USUAL. WESTPORT, October 6. The Dcnniston colliery is working as usual to-day. STEAMER HELD UP. (Per United Press Association.) AA’ELLINGTON. October 6. The Union Company's Kittawa was held up for 'several hours on Saturday through a dispute about the manning of tlie engine-room and the stokehold. A .demand was made that an extra man to act as greaser and trimmer should be shipped. In order not to delay the vesdeparture any further the local manager of the Company conceded the demand, and the Kittawa sailed at halfpast five o’clock for Grey mouth. MASTERS AND MATES. WELLINGTON, October L . The AA'cllington' branch of the N.Z. Shipowners’ Federation meets to-mor-how to consider among other business the application by masters and mates of smaller coastal steamers for increases in wages and for overtime pay. The previous agreement expired last AVednosday, and the men are now moving for a new one. ANOTHER WEST COAST STRIKE. THE MINERS AGAIN. WESTPORT. October 6. Trouble occurred at the Stockton mine this morning over the question as towhat constitutes the mine mouth at the new workings. The men claimed that time should begin from the entering of the mouth of the old mine, whereas the management claimed it began from the time bf entering the mouth of the new mine. The section of the men employed at the latter turned up in accordance with their conditions, but were ordered off home: whereupon all the men employed at the mine, numbering about two hundred, downed tools, stating that a lockout hatl occurred. The Company only recently opened a new mine, the mouth of which' is about a mile and a half distant from the mouth of the old mine. At present only a small number of men are working there, but it is hoped before long to have a large number employed. The Company’s cars. In which the men travel, cover the distance in about ten minutes, so that loss per man per day coming and going, if the demands were conceded, would b(? 20 minutes. The Company claims that the agreement was never intended to be so interpreted, and that to grant the de-. marid made would seriously hamper the financial working of .the mine.