LABOUR AFFAIRS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 11 August 1921, Page 4

LABOUR AFFAIRS.

WAGE REDUCTION ACCEPTED, ie- ress A - lOi’i ui'iii—i ij| yrignt. LONDON, August 9. The unions concerned who conferred with the railway managers, accepted the reductions in toe rail-ay workshops’ skilled artisans’ wages, amount! ing to 6s weekly, coinciding with the second cut under the engineers’ agreement. One hundred thousand men are affected. KOBE TROUBLE. STRIKERS TG RESUME. TOKYO, August 9. It is announced at Kobe, that the striking shipyard workers decided to resume wqrk on condition that the preliminary compromise settlement, giving the workers a voice in the mechanical direction of plants, shall be made a basis of further discussions. Stockholm, yesterday. The seamen have accepted the 20 per cent, reduction.