LABOUR TROUBLES
(Unitfsd Press Asro: nation.-r-Cqpyright)
LONDQN, December 7
There is much, unrest, among the postal authorities at the Right Hon. Herbert Samuel's refusal of an inquiry into the wages conditions until 1913, when the Commission will be appointed after the Board of Trade inquiry into the cost of living will have reported. Extremists urge a strike at Christmas.
The Coal Conciliation Board in the federated districts of Britain discussed tho minimum day wage; and'adjourned till tho 18th without coming fto a decision. '
The Premier, in the House of Commons, hinted that he would favourably consider the early appointment of a Committee of Inquiry into tho wages paid to postal employees/
The metal: workers' ballot, lacking the requisite majority in favour of continuing tho strike, tho lock-out has ended.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12840, 9 December 1911, Page 5
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