LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14450, 24 May 1911, Page 5

LABOUR.

THE LABOURER AXD HIS HIRE. Press Association—-Bv Tel.—Copvrieht LONDON, May 22. ' _ A conference of Railway Clerks Associations defeated a resolution deprecating the practice of Labour members of the House of Commons charging fees foj speaking at propaganda meetings in the provinces. SOUTH WALES COLLIERS. THE CAMBRIANS' DILEMMA. Received 11 p.m., May 23rd. LONDON, May 23. Tho Council of the South Wales Miners' Federation declined to recommend the Cambrians to accept the agreement oft'erei! tliem. Delegates fiom all parts of tho coalfields will meet to consider agreement on Saturday. If it is is rejected, contrary'to the Miners' Federation of Britain;" tho latter may withhold their weekly' contribution of £3OOO to the strike "funds. A GERMAN LOCK-OUT. BERLIN, May 22.. A lock-out of ton thousand trade unionist textile operatives at Minister has begun. STRIKE CLOSES GASWORKS. j BRISBANE, May 23. ; A strike has been declared at tho | gasworks over the company refusing to j reinstate the president of the Union. Ihe president gave provisional notice, and then wished to retract. In the meantime the Company filled his position. Forty men are on strike, and the works are closed. About three days' supply of gas is stored. DEPRESSION IN STEEL. LONDON, May 23. Owing to the depression in the Ebhwoy.nln toehvork~. coke ovens eniolov--111'.': 3-jOO men will be indefinitely closed on the 31st insi.