LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13355, 3 August 1907, Page 5

LABOUR.

THE STRIKERS AT BELFAST. Press Assoeiation-ByTelegraph-Copyright LONDON, August 1. The authorities are urgently recruiting large numbers of the Irish constabulary, and have sent maxims to Belfast. The police at Roscommon, Calrim,' Galway and Mayo, strongly sympathise with those' at ..Belfast-. -SHOP ASSISTANTS' AWARD. SYDNEY, Augnst 2. It is stated that the Arbitration .Court's award has put an additional ,3860,000 into l'h-3 pockets of the shop assistants. LORD-LIEUTENANT FIRM. DISMISSAL AND SUSPENSIONS. Received 11.15 p.m., August: 2nd. LONDON, August 2. The Earl of Aberdeen declined to grant the petition from the Belfast constabulary, on the ground that the condition precedent \o any representations must be complete re-establislunent of discipline. He ..'■eela-red that- the recent violation of discipline at a critical moment brought- serious discredit on all the constables concerned. The leader of the. discontented -Belfast constables has been disini&sed, and Sv<s other constables have "been suspended. The agitation, in. several'towns, including Cork and Wat-erford, is increasing.' V LABOURERS' WAGES. ' Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 2. The industrial award in the General babourers'_Union dispute has' been file jt A ! week's work is not to exceed 48 hours, and rihall be fixed by each employer to suit his particular business. In tunnel work the hours must not exceed eight per shift. Six hours will constitute a day's work when men are -working in wet places or among foul air. The minimum rates of wng-ts for tunnel and timber men is 10s per shift; all other workere employed underground, -9s ; ijuarrymen, 9s; labourers not spceifhd, if employed continuously for one week or more, 8s per day; for a loss p?riod, Is ljd per hour. The award, which is riot to affect contracts mads be-for-a Udo hearing of the dispute, is t'of come into force on 'September Ist'-next, and expire on September Ist; 1909.