INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 66, 1 November 1911, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, November 1. Mr Semple, organiser of the Labour Federation, interviewed, said that the talk that a general industrial upheaval was fostered by the New Zealand Federation of Labour was all empty gossip. Trouble was not likely to eventuate nnlos? forced upon the organisation. Most of the federated unions were working amicably under agreements arived at round the open table. In the coal industry matters were going on smoothly, and no difficulty was likely to arise for some time at least. The Auckland tramway employees would have the support of the federation ir> obtaining new demands, but no trouidj was anticipated, because the demands made were reasonable. Mv Semple addad that he had a thorough knowledge of the conditions throughout New Zealand from an industrial standpoint, and could say that no serious trouble was imminent.

While the labour strike is in progress, two local bodies .decided, for iinancial reasons, to curtail expenditure on street works'. These bodies reinstated only some of the men they emploved previous to the strike. The union "now asserts that there has been discrimination in favour of a few men, and calls upon the local bodies for an explanation. If not satisfied with the answer it threatens that it will call out the men employed, and if necessary extend the strike.