LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13846, 6 March 1909, Page 5

LABOUR.

THE BIGHT, TO STRIKE. - , Prc«s A.ssociatiori-By . Telegraph-iWr right SYDNEY, March 5; The L:i buur Council, oh the motion of the seamen's delegate, rescinded li,y 00 to 49, the extreme powers it "gave itself recently of culling upon ail unions to strike whether tliey wished tjp or not. The Council still reserves the right to check the spread of trouble during industrial unrest. MINERS' Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 5. Uic -Hunfcly Miners'. 'Union passed n, .strongly worded resolution expressing disapproval of. the action of tho Employers' 1* cderution iin ■ collecting inonpy for presentation to tho four officials who remained at : their . posts during; the recent trouble. While the Arbitration Act makes, it penal ?for unionists sist their, fellows' in tlic.time of' trouble, they urge .that employers .should not b(< permitted to bribe'inen to oppose tlito Cuionist principle.

LEAVING NEW ZEALAND

>ni • 'LI NO TO N, March .3. Ilie Sydney • boat to-day took several bricklayers for Brisbane, who are going in search .of work. V Briekaycrs arc also leaving the Doniiiiiou w Contractors' Association. Mr w-'i V i n"-', 0 '' sbcretary ! of tho 1 ederated Builders' . and Contractors' Association, received word, from Brisbane that com pete lit brickla Vers call secure in Queensland a rims of six months' work, at ,12s .. tt day of eight hours-, and are -pajd weekly, Mr fcrienfell has been inundated with ' letters, iroin bricklayers hi nil. parts' of the Dominion asking for the above particulars, and the writers repressed themselves iin x.ous to try Queensland. Although it is elearthat, sonib bricklayers are ,wanted,Mi- Grcnfell iiesiretl to sound a uole of warning " to those, who con template socking', .work m Brisbane. lie has .no information to give as to what uumber of men the Mueensland buddors require.'" Hi? therefore, considers it inadvisable for a laruc 11 iin)her oI . jnen to go until word has been received regitidin?' tho extent of the. work offering.

AT BROKEN, RIVER,

.CHRISTGHIIRCH,. March 6:" ;No lurtlior dcveio^nents.:of an im'i> 01 i M'ntrire .occurred at Broken llnrer.. TLe nttitudo ilio meii intend. to take up will bo'. definitely known until _• Monday''nvoViningj when the.Public • Works.. DowiHnient, liiis, announced its ihtpntioii. of, TeintfOflucing tlio contract syste.ni pn the basis of Is 3d per tKiek.' mtin left the work'.tins morning.