WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 20, 24 September 1913, Page 4

WORK AND WAGES.

SYDNEY WAGES BOARD. , By Elkctrio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Pkess Association.] Sydney, September 23. The award of the Wages Board, which dealt with the late wharf laborers' trouble, has been issued. It fixes the number of bags of chaff to be carried as a load at four, and of heavy goods at two. It stipulates for not fewer than six men trucking to and from a hatch, that the men must not bo compelled to carry salt, and fixes a number of other disputed points with reference to the engaging of men and the working of cargo. The award operates to September, 1915.

THE BADGE-WEARERS. London, September 23. Bowman has secured a recognition of the union's right to wear a badge if it undertook to refrain from sympathetic strikes. SERIOUS MINING TROUBLE. (Received .9.0 a.m.) London, September 23. Although settlements had been effected there are more, serious strikes still and many sporadic ones over trivial causes, especially in the colliery districts, indicating that there was general industrial unrest. ''Four 1 thousand Clydachvale colliers . struck over the company!? policeman investigating a discrepancy in a miner's pay ticket. The unionists demanded his dismissal, alleging that the policeman made an improper suggestion during a visit to the miner's bouse. Tho company's refusal to dismiss him led to the mine being laid idle. Stanton, the miners' agent, declared that these technical stoppapers were a sheer farce. The South Wales Federation has passed a resolution that all those employed in the mines should belong to the Federation, yet only a few districts in Wales were prepared to strike for principle. Stanton added that the question should be a national one.