INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 11, 23 December 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

COTTON MILL OWNERS FAVOUR A LOCK-OUT.

THE MINIMUM WAGI

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, December 22. The Blackburn mill owners have instructed their delegates at the cotton workers and spinners’ conference to support a lock-out. Tim Durham coal miners declined to accede to the demand for an individual minimum wage, irrespective of the amount of work done.

SHORT SHIFT QUESTION

London, December 22. The Northumberland miners are dissatisfied with the Federation’s refusal to take action in regard to the short shift question. This creates a setback to their aggressive policy and may possibly lead to their withdrawal from the federation.

CAUSE OE A SPLIT

London, December 22

The Accrington strike was precipitated by the refusal of a man and wife to become unionists.

TRAMWAY MEN’S WAGES

Sydney, November 22

The Wages Board award, operating from to-morrow, raises the Sydney tramwaymen’s wages a shilling a day all round.

THE NATTER TROUBLE

(Per Press Association.) Napier, December 22

Agents for the Whakatane, expected here early next week, have conceded tlie new demands ol the waterside workers, but the Union Company, remaining firm, have ordered the Wanaka to Dunedin. She loft tonight with her cargo of coal undischarged.