LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13892, 1 May 1909, Page 5

LABOUR.

AT BROKEN HILL. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright SYDNEY, April 30. A conference is , being arranged between the Proprietary Company. and the . miners over the. men's.:, demand that only members, of • the combined Unions be employed. The .manage? ment state that, men will be selected, whether union or non-union, and wjhile the: company, is determined to carry, out to the full Judge Higgins' award, it would be idle to, expect it to submit to the new conditions demanded. /

TRIBUTE TO MR GILES, Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 30. A conference between the Builders and Contractors Association and the Labourers at 'which' Mr Harle Giles .presided, arrived, at a satisfactory settlement of the .dispute. The reprpr seutatives of- bbth sides expressed unqualified satisfaction. "w,ith the manner in ' which the;' .. brought about an agreement. " The L'abour'represehtative / expressed surprise' aud pleasure at the tact-and business ability displayed', by,- Mr' Giles." . There - - w,as''iio question that he was the right man in the right place,. ;

SHIPPING DISPUTE. AUCKLAND, April 30. The Arbitration .Court made out "an award on the lines rif the agreement arrived at between , the parties. in the ship and boatbiiilders dispute. A feature of the agreement! is that'ls 4d per hour is to he j>aid for repairing work', meaning, all work-. pn 'a vessel, other than that performed in tlie process jaf construction. The award in tlieehipmasters' py6yides tlie' grant? ing of ''annual oil full pay, and their wittges ; should she a3 follows Masters, of/steamers, 1001, to 1700 tons gross ' £27;.per month; between 001 '.. and ' 1000 -' tons £25 ; 241 and/'GOO tons', £22- 151 and 9.*0 tor"- £18'; 25. alid 'loo tons. - £l6. This will not apply. to .intcrcolonial and Home trade, sajljijg vessel."?, but the fol? lowing shall apply to 607tonsiiet register and over, ~ £l7 jjer month;' 40t to 600 tons, £l6 ; Under 401 tons £ls.'PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS. April' SO. 'At a meeting of the executive of the Otago Employers? Association, great exceotiori was taken;; to Mr Justice Sim's utterances -re preference of employment to Unionists; It was resolved to endorse tlie attitude taken up by the northern associations'iand to; strenuously oppose any further alienation of the liiglits.of the employers. ... . . V; FISHERMEN'S DISPUTE. TNVERCARGILLV April 30. The dispute a firm of lisK weroha n'ts and' theit' enttermeln at ' the Bluff, which' has been' in during the past week lias been set> tied. Recently a irian left)' the, stealer Tokomnru and" staxiWl fishing in. the riitter Riiruhou . In the sntial I t hours o.f this morning he was iaasaulted'on board the cutter bv"-four'nfttti so ! tlint, lie lijid to be treated by a doctor. "The police are enquiring into the matter. .