New Zealand Strike.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 86, 11 December 1913, Page 5

New Zealand Strike.

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AUSTRALIAN INTEREST. ißt Eleoisio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.j (Received 9.50 a.m.) Sydney, December 11. The wharf laborers say they wont work the Tahiti owing to the vessel having touched New Zealand. The combined unions conference is still sitting. Mi' Hughes says lie cabled to New Zealand asking whether the published statement of the strike being on the verge of collapse is correct.

The following is a summary of strikes in New Zealand from the inception of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894 to 31st March, 1913:—Number of strikes coming within scops of the Act. 35; number of strikes outside the Act, 03. Of this total 31 strikes were of slaughterman, si?; being within the scope of the Act, and 25 outside it. Number ■if disputes included in total, which nay be classed as trivial or unimportant, 43; men fully successful in 25 •ascs. employers successful in 42; compromise effected in 28; average Juration of all strikes, trivial cases not inlcuded, 23 days; total number of strikers, trivial cases not included, 3,686; total number of men rendered idle by strikes, 8380; approximate loss to employers concerned, £160,414; approximate loss in wages to workmen concerned (average to Us), £283,20(3; total amount of fines inflicted on strikers, £1917; total imounts collected to date, £1532.