LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14480, 29 June 1911, Page 5

LABOUR.

THE MARITIME STRIKE. OWNERS INOONPUSION. Prwi Association—By Teh—Copyright. LONDON, June 27. Confusion, is prevalent in connection with the shipping strike'.. This is,due to the shipowners of each port negotiating with the seamen independently of other porta. Many 'owners are urging the Shipping Federation to abandon tlie policy of non-intervention and. formulate a fixed scale of wages If this is not accepted, the Federation of shipowners should lay up their ships. Mr Tom Mann states -that 65 per cent, of the shipping firms of Liverpool, have already granted an advance of wages. The representatives of forty-one coasting and ship-owning firms met at Newcastle and rejected the demand for an increase. . ' The Pacific and Gulf lines have conceded 'tho men's demand for an increase of pay. The crews of three Peninsular boats at Tilbury lave struck. Shipping at Sunderland is paralyised. SYMPATHETIC STRIKES. Th» dockers at Manchester, Liverpool and the Tyne, and 1000 at, Glasgow- have struck, and the fleet of colliers on the Tyne has been thrown out qf work. Liverpool carters have also struck; ASIATIC CREWS. Mr Ben Tillett has issued a manifesto.. He states that 40,000 Asiatics' areemployed in the British mercantile marine. The Shipping Federation are shipping Chinese coolies in. greater mmibers than the Tory Government shipped them to South Africa. He declares that the leading Liberal financiers demand this as the price of supporting the Liberal party. LIVERPOOL OWNERS GIVING WAY. Received 10.45 p.m., June 28th. LONDON, June 28. The Carters' Union and Dock Labourers' Union of Liverpool decided not. to handle goods belonging to firms involved in the strikes. As a result of this a number of ship-owners the men's demands. THE STRIKE IN HOLLAND. A3I3TERDAM, June 28. Work is' at a standstill on twenty out of thirtytßvb steamers lying here. AUSTRALIAN ARBITRATION LAWS. SYDNEY, June 23. Mr Mitchell, general secretary of the Enginedr'h-ers' and Firemen's Association, referring to the High Court, judgment regarding registration under the Common wealth Arbitration Act, asked the Federal Government to amend the Act in order to overcome the difficulty created, and clearly define the meaning of "industry." The judgment renders invalid a large number of industrial agreements, and if they are interfered with, trouble will ensue. Although opposed to strikes, that was the only msthed left if they were, deprived of the right of arbitration. If it was possible, and the GovernorGeneral would proclaim such an association an organisation ui.'der the Act, trouble would be ivoi"tc-d. Referring to tin, different courts, ho stated that it would cost £IOO less to obtain an award of the Fo;l?vnl Court covering the whole of Australia than a State Court j-.vard f<rr the State only. Tn the Assembly. Mr Wade continued tiie .- I <>br\te <mi the recond reading of th? State ~•'-Vtrnt: n n Rill. He de-r-1-n-rrl that, the ;rrentef=t hint on the Hi!] was that the Government proposed to punish strikers drastically if they registered under the Art. and not punish thorn if they wei" unregistered. The ringleaders of strikes should be punished more Vnv- : ly than the n le n who were ir> : s'ed. hi't tin? Bill proposed to treat them siniilnrLy.