LABOUR MATTERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 17, 12 September 1912, Page 3

LABOUR MATTERS.

AX AMENDING BILL. (By Electric Telegraph,-*-Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, September 11. Lord Robert Cecil’s new Bill to amend the Trade Disputes Act restores the liability of unions in connection with portions of Acts under their cognisance, exempts the provident fund from liability, regulates peaceful picketing, And allows limited immunity to persons inducing others to break contracts. THE COTTON SPINNERS. London, September 11. Twenty thousand ring spinners izi the Lancashire cotton trade, chiefly females, have obtained a ten per cent, increase in wages.

DISSATISFIED RAILWAY CLERKS

London, September 11

The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has dispensed with the] clerks recently engaged. The latter are picketing the Society’s offices to prevent black-logging. The situation is complicated by the National I n on of Clerks declaring the picketers themselves black-legs for usurping qualified clerks’ positions. [A cablegram from London on August 28 saidA number of railwaymen dismissed for participating in strikes have been engaged by the Amalgamated Society as a clerical staff at 30s a week. There is a good deal of extra work in connection with the Insurance Bill. They now threaten to strike because they have not received 355, the minimum wage recognised by the National Union of Clerks.]