LABOUR.
THEIR OWN LOCK-CUT. Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 2. Six thousand strikers at Aberdare are ready to Tesume -work, but 2500 cannot be employed owing to the damage done to the mines during ; *he,; strike. ' 1 FRENCH RAILWAY MEN; PARIS, Jan. 2. The Confederation of Labour is determined to secure Durand's liberation, and is organising a general strike.. PRINTERS ON STRIKE. REPLACED BY GIRLS. Received 10.50 p.m., Jan. 3rd. HELSINGFORS, Jan. 3. The newspapers appeared as usual, despite a printers' strike. 3irls aho had -been secretly trained for a month worked the linotypes. [Helsingfors is the capital of Finland. ] STRIKE OF AUSTRIAN VAILO IS. VIENNA, Jan. 3. Eight thousand tailors have demanding a 35 per centum iD _r. v ase of wages and a ten hours day. BOOTMAKERS AND THE ACT. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Jan. 3. The bootmakers conference to-day passed a resolution recommending the Federal Council to obtain the opinion of members of the federation as to the establishment of a co-operative boot factory, and if the branches are favourable, the Federal Council to appoint a committee to draw up a scheme. "That a committee consisting of delegates from each, branch evidence on the present system of working in various factories and report to branches, which shall elect a committee to draft a quantity statement. M ''That branches be reoommended to put a sum of 2s per member -nto a nolitical fighting fund, branches to have full power to spend the fund &3 they think fit in connection with a New Zealand Labour Party." se-crotary was inrfcructed to write to Ministers and to Members of Parliament. asking them to support legislation for having nil boot? and shoes fn '♦he DormrroTi branded "Mode in Now and also with the . manufacturer'® aajn»
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14390, 4 January 1911, Page 5
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