LABOUR

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13297, 28 May 1907, Page 5

LABOUR

FROM COAL. TO SUGAR. ' .Press Association-By Telegraph -Copy right Received 9.39 p.m., May 27th. SYDNEY, May 27. The coal lumpers are leaving ia batches to work on the Queensland sugar plantations. MASS MEETING AT POPLAR. AUSTRALIAN WORKER THANKED. - ENGLISHMEN REPLACE GERMANS. Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright Received 12.33 a.m., May 28th. •;- - LONDON," May '27. / A mass meeting of seamen an' 4 waterside workmen at Po'plaf," resolution thanking' Mr Siighei for his jjrt&t services lo searneii in" /connection \titn. '.thy rvavigatiori Conference ' '"_" -" \ "' ..." Mr Hnghes explained the position of the Australian labour parties, and urged the sraniin to combine- to improve their conditions, which were" at present'disgraceful. He declared that he' felt humiliated when Englishmen-" were willing : to " replace "■ at Hamburg, Germans who had',' struck in order to obtain decent condition's' of labour.

ATTACK ON A PACKING FACTORY. TOUR STRIKERS KILLED. Received 11.11 p.m.. May 27th. , , BUENOS AIRES, May 27. Two hundred/strikers attacked the. frpzen meat, packing factory at Buenos Aires.. 7A police, detachment, and sailors repulsed the strikers, .killing four and wounding, several others. ' ;■"-• ="' ■. THE TROUBLE ON THE RAND. pleas for ARBITRATION. Received 10.49 p.m., May 27th. \ PRETORiA, May 27. Five thousand Johannesburg-ers expressed sympathy with the. strikers/, and-advocated compulsory arbitration!'' Mr R. L. Outhwaite, a member of the executive of the Transvaal National Association, declared that the miners would bring- the financiers to .ilieir knees, and compel them' to plead for arbitration. THE SCAFFOLDING ACT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 27. The Minister of Labour informed a deputation from the Building Trades Union that the-Scaffolding.Ac- wiH be-amended, so as to give inspectors greater jurisdiction.