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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14908, 28 November 1912, Page 7

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WO RKERS' ACCIDENTS. COST 4 MILLIONS A YEAR. Pre=3 Association—liv To!.—Ccprrifi-M. '• LONDON, Nov. 26. ; The official returns show that dur- ! ing 1911 payments under tho Workers' Compensation Act totalled .£3.056,404, I compared with in 3910, and \ £2,274,239 in 1909. The figures cover i seven chief industries. Including ; management, funds and legal and modi- j fill costs the whole of tho pavments in j connection with compensation in 1911 i were over four millions. j UNION'S FUNDS. ! NOT FOR. LEGAL COSTS. LONDON. Nov. L' 6. -Mr Johnson, Labour member for Nuneaton, and the executive of the Warwickshire Miners" Union were or- ! dererl to refund £948, costs of a libel action rjaid from the union funds. The executive considered the union should pay as 'the action was in its interests, but the Court held that the -mion had no legal interest in tho result. STRIKE ABETTORS. ACQUITTED ON MURDER CHARGE. NEW YORK, Nov. 26. Ettor, a strike leader at Lawrence, Massachusetts, and two alleged abettors, were found■ not guilty of murder in connection with the strike ! lots. Tho accused embraced and kissed each other after tho verdict. Tremendous interest was taken in the trial. AN AWARD CHALLENGED. Received 12.5 a.m., Nov. 28th. SYDNiiY", Nov. 27, Three groups of steamship owners arc challenging the validity of Mr ! justice Tliggins's recent award in the j Merchant Service Guild Case, on the I ground that inter-State shipping is j beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal j Courts. I