WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 44, 27 June 1913, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

CHARLESTON STRIKE RESUMED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] New York, June 26. A resumption of the miners’ strike, which kept tho Charleston district, West Virginia, in a state of anarchy for a year, has been announced. Fifteen thousand miners have been called out. The strike will be effective from July 1. Further disturbances are feared. FARRIERS’ DISPUTE. (Received 8.20 a.m.) Sydney, June 26. The farriers in many of the smaller shops in the city and suburbs have struck against the use. of machine made horse * shoes. The recent a ward increased the -wages 12J per cent., and the men claim that the masters immediately introduced machine-made shoes, and raised the prices four per cent.. COAL AND SHIPPING. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Sydney, June 27. Six Newcastle collieries are idle. At a meeting of coal and shipping interests in the northern port, loud complaints were made of the chaotic state of the coal trade and the damage and loss resulting owing to the want of proper loading and other facilities, (the meeting demanding that the Government take immediate steps to relievo the situation. DEPARTING LABOR. [Per Press Association. ]% Dunedin, Juno 26. Mr Mi McAllen, secretary of the General Laborer’s Union, states that there at' present fully 100 laborers out’ of work in, Dunedin. He asserts that there are in Otago, at any rate, plenty of men available to fill the demand for workers, both in town and tho country. In fact, he asserted, able, strong men were leaving the Dominion for Australia in search of work, and their places were being filled by London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow farm laborers, whop however, will not leave the town. He said. .that ten young men from Central Otago had left for Australia, stating that they could not get work in their localities as farm laborers. .

“ LABOR ON THE COAST. : i / i. i : i Christchurch, June 26. Mi 4 Fagad, secretary of the Inangahua Mihfefs’ 1 Union, who passed through Christchurch to attend ah! 'executive meeting of ’ the Federation of ’Labor, the Federation 'congress'' and the Unity congress at Wellington, Was interviewed concerning a cable sent by him to the secretary of the Australian Miners’ Asso--1 ciafion to "stop labor from coming from Broken Hill district to Reef ton. Mr Fagan said that the position was tliat tho at. Reefton w6re already fully ! manned. The Wealth imd *Blackwater mines were fully manned, and the batteries were crushing a 'greater tonnage than ever before, 1 The Globe battery was not employing the full number of stamps but that was not due to scarcity of labor. The statement that 300 men were required at Reefton was absolutely untrue. The Union had certainly attempted to prevent men from coming from Broken Hill, and also from the North Islahd of New Zealand, because they felt that the men were only 1 wanted for the purpose of increasing' competition in the matter of contracting on the field.