LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14284, 26 August 1910, Page 5

LABOUR.

THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT." WORKERS ADVISED TO DEFY THE LAW 7 . (Press Aseociation-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, August "24. Mr W T alsh, M.P., speaking at Lindley, denounced the Osborne judgment as disgraceful, and advised his constituents to defy the law. He himself was prepared to undergo imprisonment for contempt. The Christian martyrs underwent the punishment of death, and similarly the Labour movement, would rise ennobled and purified from the persecution it was undergoing. THE STEEL STRIKE. NEW YORK, August 25. The steel corporation involving 7000 workers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, terminates on Saturday. It has lasted nineteen months. DISGRACEFUL SWEATING. SYDNEY, August 25. In the Tasmanian Assembly Mr Woods stated that he knew of * a girl dressmaker in her fourth year, getting six shillings a week. She worked four nights a week overtime without pay. She had to buy her own firewood, and when at home, sick through overwork, her pay was docked. Another large firm gave fourpence for tea money, which the girls were compelled to purchase on the premises for sixpence. He regarded it as slow murder. THE INDUSTRIAL COURT. Received 8.30 p.m., August 25th. SYDNEY, August 25. The Industrial Court held its first sitting to-day. Several employers were fined for working employees after hours, or paying them less wages than the industrial Act prescribed. The Chief Railway Commissioner was mulcted in £2 for paying a plumber below the fixed wage. Received 12.45 a.m.. August 25th. AGITATORS EXPELLED. The North Coast railway strike has been settled, the men having decided to expel from the Union the six agitators over whom the trouble occurred.