LABOUR ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LX, Issue 2183, 10 September 1896, Page 3

LABOUR ITEMS.

: ♦ Per Electric Telegraph— Copyright Per Press Association, ' 1 London, September 8. ' At the Trades Union Congress m •, Edinburgh, Mr Malleson,the president, ( said that the fight of the future would t be for a living wage, and that the pay- J ment for labour would be the first call j on production. The social millennium \ was still at a distance. I The Clyde strike is finally settled. r Sydney, September 9. The men were about to resume work m the Wickham colliery, Bullock Island, when a further subsidence was detected, ] and an examination showed that a heavy I fall of the roof was imminent. The ! mine has, therefore, been laid idle until > the ground thoroughly settles. j ■ < The Otago Trades and Labour Coun 1 oil's Uommitte appointed to report upon 1 the Labour Department's annual report ' endorse the remarks of the sergeant of ! police quoted by Mr Tregear, to the effect ' that women and girls could not b*» ex- ( pt'Cted to work steadily if the rate of pay ' did not give them even a living. The Committee regret to say tjhat the above is perfectly, correct m very many cases where girls have no parent to help to sup- ' port them. The wages paid would not pay for food, let alone clothea,boots, etc. But worse still is the statement that m New Zealand there are 591 factory girls ' who are getting no pay whatever for their work, and 175 who are earning half a crown a week or less. The committee ■are pleased to leartf that Mr Tregear recognises that the best remedy for this state of affairs is the organisation of trade unions. .