LABOUR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 582, 27 May 1909, Page 1

LABOUR.

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A fortnight back he entered Broken Hill, and was carried shoulder high, Now they wanted to crucify him, but ho would not be driven out of Austin* lia. Ho would not be kicked about or insulted. ; SYDNEY. May 25. There is a rush to resume work in ill* Proprietary and Block X mines. A hundred men have registered. BOOT 'TRADE DISPUTE. WELLINGTON. May 25. The Arbitration Court to-day commenced hearing an important dispute between the Now Zealand Federated Bootmakers’ Union and the New Zealand Federated Association of Employers. The case involves iho interests of tho bootmaking industry throughout the Dominion. Principal demands arc preference to unionists, minimum wages for females (32/(1), expert girls working wax thread machines, for whom £2 10/- is asked, minimum wage for men 1/4 per hour. Mr Cooper. who appeared for the Union, said .the increases asked for meant a total of .020,000 per annum, but the employers benefited to tho extent of £7-0.000 a year owing to the increased duty on imported boots. The evidence was not concluded when the Court rose for tho day.