LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume 170, Issue 170205, 1 May 1920, Page 9

LABOUR.

THE AVERAGE FAMILY. By Electric Tele|£rai>li —Copyright. Australian, and iv.Z. Cable Aisiv.. ... ADELAIDE, April 20. Giving evidence before the .industrial Court m connection with the basic wage, the . employers' representative stai.ed that if -the -wage were nxed -for a standard family of live it would iriean that over 1,000.000 non-existent children would be provided for in Australia.. Tile statistical average of aependent .children- ivas less tlian two per family. ■

A STRIKE-IN SERVIA. ' • BELG-RADE, April 28. A strikers' demonstration at Laibach defied the. .police . and fighting followed. Ten were killed. A general strike'has been proclaimed.

SEAMEN'S UNION. DEFINES "GOING SLOW" Received 7.40 p.m., Aprirl 29th. ( SYDNEY. April 29. An official statement, issued on "gplialf of the. . Federated -Seamen's Union, recommends members t-o "go slow\ if ship owners refuse- to grant certain, conditions, namely" bringing the working conditions up to what -they arc in other countries. - The statement adds: "Going slow is easyj Nothing hard about it. Simply allow, the ship to take her time from port to port."' . .. , '■'

RAILWAY STRIKE IN FRANCE. . :. PARIS, April 29The Railway Confederation' has order ed a railway strike to' begin on May 1.

BUILDING TRADE DEADLOCK. MELBOURNE, April 27. Fifteen hundred Unionists engaged in the building trade' decided to adhere to the principle of a forty-hour week, pending the result of a ballot on the question. If the employers stand strictly to th &ir ultimatum not to e>mjiloy in en refusing to work forty-four hours, the building trade on Tuesday will be paralysed bv the suspension of work, which is half a lock-out and half a strike.

CARTERS' DiaiANDS. HOB ART, April 29. The Garters' Union--• has prepared a new log. claiming a minimum wage of £7 a week.

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