Labour Matters.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5206, 16 January 1913, Page 3

Labour Matters.

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UNION MUST BE RECOGNISED

Received D.35 p.m., 14th, New York, January 14. At a mass meeting of garment workers thousands took an oath not to resume until the union is recognised, and frequent strike riots were quelled by the police.

AMALGAMATION NEGOITATONS. Received 10 a.m., 16th. Sydney, January 16. Arnalagmation appears to be in the industrial air at present. Besides the inter-Sla;e consolidation of the bush workers’ and the State unification of the labourers’ unions, a proposal is a foot to form an inter-Slate federation of the building trade organisations. The clerks, shop assistants and storemen are also contemplating 1 mslgamation. The Labour paper Worker announces that if the scheme is adopted by the conference of delegates and accepted by the union the amalgamations will have a roll call of 100,060. This will mark another great advance and the ideal of one big union embracing tfce workers of every calling will be brought appreciably nearer realisation.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, This Day. The cancellation of the slaughtermen’s registration under the Arbitration Act will be gazetted tonight, after which it will be competent for them to cease work. Gisborne, This Day. The Poverty Bay slaughtermen have given notice that they will cease work as from 31st. The local freezing works’ manager is uncommunicative.