WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 218, 8 September 1908, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gicborne, Last Nigiit.

At a meeting of the (Jisborne Typographical Union, an appeal was received from the Wellington grades an|d[ Labor Council for support to the bakers now on strike. Members expressed themselves in strong diapproval of strikes, and the following motion was .unanimously carried: "That this Union, ibeiug desirous of upholding the principle as embodied in tile Arbitration Act, does not see its way to give any encouragement to strikes, and therefore declines to give the Wellington 'bakers on strikv any assistance." JUDGE SIM. lnvercargill, Last Night. Tile Local Trades and Labor Council decided that they could not support resolutions suggesting that Justin; Sim should be removed from the Presidency of the Arbitration Court, but, at the same linn;, sympathised with the Canterbury Farm Laborers' Union in its failure to get an award in their disunite. RAILWAY SHUNTERS' GRJIEVANCIOS Auckland, Monday. A meeting of railway shunters was held here yesterday to endeavor to ontain an amelioration ot conditions for that branch of the service. Complaints .were made regarding overtime and the employment of acting-shunters. It was .stated that the Classification Act provided that a minimum wage of Hs lid per day should he paid, hut the officers had made a third grade, and of the nineteen men shunting on the Auckland lines only one was classed as a shunter. It was decided to hold a further meeting to draw up a statement to he forwarded the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants for presentation to Parliament.