LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14344, 17 January 1911, Page 5

LABOUR.

FOREIGN STRIKES,

Press Association—By Tel.— Copyright LONDON, Jan. 15.

The strike of colliers at Liego has ended. The owners have granted many demands. The railway strike at Lisbon has tor- I minated. The concessions include twenty days' leave with full pay. The gas workers have now struck. Naval stokers re-lighted the furnaces at the gas works, and the military dispersed the strikers, who were objecting io their action.

London shipowners are not perturbed regarding the threatened sailors' and firemen's international strike during the Coronation period. Mr Orbcll, organiser of the Dockers' Union, is sceptical, owing to the lack of organise tiou.

BRITISH SEAMEN.

Received 11.35 p.m., Jan. 16th. LONDON, Jan. 16. Mr Havelock Wilson, attended a priyate mooting of seamen and firemen at Liverpool in connection with the organisation for the proposed strike, but ho declined: u*ike a statement to the press. Shipowners of Glasgow consider it unnecessary to take any special stops to counteract Mr Wilson's policy. LISBON, Jan. 16. The gas workers damaged the mains serving the suburbs. The public throughout are antagonistic to the strikers.

The hotel employees union din intends filina a dispute for ihe consideration of the Conciliation Council, and a statement of claim has b<jen r.renared which it is Imped w ; ll form :' bflsis for a Dominion award. The hours asked for are 60 for males, 52 for females, with weekly half-holiday, and from 2 p.m. every ohcr Sunday, the wnge= -ircrding to the numbir of hands employed in the different parts of the house.

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