LABOUR AFFAIRS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170576, 6 August 1921, Page 2

LABOUR AFFAIRS.

WAGE REDUCTION

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian »md N.Z. Cable Association. Received 5.5 p.m., August 5. LONDON, August 4. The Midland Counties Wages Board yeports that sineo January tlio price of finished iron has in Hen u> the extent of £l3 per ton, the eifoct, of which is BO per cent .reduction in the ironworkers’ wages. Tlio North-East Coast Arbitration Board reduced the puddlers, iorgo and mill workers 5 wages to the extent of 47 per cent. EXTREMISTS TURNED OUT. Received 5.5 p.m., August 5. FAR IS, August 4. The officials of the Extremist Eailwnymon's Union were to-day turned out) from their offices in the Rue Baudin, without* lTiclon. PERTH BAKERS RESUME. PERTH, August 5. The bakers have resumed, conaiiional ou the Minister of Justice reviewing tlio whole position. [Tlio bakers closed down t.heir businesses on account of the price fixed for broad being unprofitable to them.] BEN TILLETT'S REPORT. Received 5.5 p.m., August 5. DUX DON. August 4. Mr Ren Till eft, in his annual report to the Hookers’ Union, animadverts on

the want of unity within the miners' union in the recent strike, which destroyed the action carefully planned by the Triple Alliance. The Miners’ Union needed amalgamation more than any other. . Mr Tillett suggests co-operation between the great trade unions, to deal with unemployment.