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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 3 April 1919, Page 7

LABOUR.

GENERAL STRIKE IN GERMANY. MUCH RIOTING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 0.5 a.m., April 3rd. LONDON, April 1. A general strike and riots in Berlin are spreading to the provinces. The military have been called out, and tliero i is imich fighting and bloodshed. STRIKES ARE SPREADING. , Received. 1.10 a.m., April 3rd. LONDON, April 2. Strikes are increasingly prevalent in Rhenish Westphalia. Martial law has been proclaimed over a wide area, including Stuttegart. There was some bloodshed during the food' .riots. I The German Government has forbidden the distribution of Allied food to strikers. THE JOHANNESBURG STRIKE. Received 0.5 a.m.,. April • 3rd. CAPETOWN, April 1. In the Assembly 7 Mr Malan made a statement regarding unrest on the Rand. He announced that Messrs De Wet and Mentz were proceeding to Johannesburg to inquire inta the position. Tlie Government! intended to protect lite and property, and measures to that effect were being taken. The Government was confident.that a serious crisis would he avoided. WORKMEN TO TAKE CHARGE. A Board of Control formed in Johannesburg issued a manifesto to the effect that the joint strike committee had decided thai) iintl/tlie Municipal Council concedes their demands the Board will assumo control and resume all municipal services. . SEVEN AND A HALF HOURS. GERMAN WORKING- DAY. Received 11.25 p.m., April 2nd. AMSTERDAM, March 26. 1 It is reported that the „ German Government has expressed willingness to institute a working day of seven and a half hours. THE WEST COAST MINERS. (Per Press Association), WESTPORT, April 2.. The result of the conference between the miners' representatives ' and the mine management at Westport yesterday, was an amicable arrangement. The miners jwill commence _ work at Millerton to-morrow morning. The terms of the agreement have not been made public. , The "Times" correspondent telephoned from Millerton this afternoon that the miners by a large majority adhere to their former resolution passed at a "stop work" meeting, as the settlement is -not considered satisfactory,' 'and the mine remains idle. THE STOCKTON MINE. • '' WELLINGTON, ,-April 2. A message from Westport on Monday stated that the output of coal from the Stockton mine last week was nil. The secretary of the company states that ■this is incorrect, the output being 2400 tons. He further states that work at the mine is proceeding! as usual. »- , ■ _•; OTAGO FOURMILL "WAGES. DUNEDTN, April 2. During the hearing of the Flour Mill Employees' dispute, before ihe" Arbitration Court to-day, in which the Union asked that the wages should be fixed at Is 9d, Is Bd, and Is 2Jd hourly, and that the starting hour should be 8 a.m. all the year round, or else that remuneration' should be given for starting at 6 a.m., the President asked Mr Haymes, the Union's representative if lie would" agree to the, Court's suggestion of yesterday of fixing a basic wage, and. then giving a war bonus to compensato for the increased cost of living, subject to variations from time to time, every six months. Mr Haymes said they were quite agreeable to the Court fixing a basic wage and war bonus. # The President said that basic wages would be always open to review. Whatever the Court did in this • dispute, would no doubt be followed in other places, and would, in fact, he 'a Dominion award. . ' "