INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14100, 19 April 1920, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

HIGHER WAGES. DEMANDED BY TRADES UNIONS. Press Association —Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Monday, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, Saturday. The largest trade unions are demanding further substantial increases in wages, based on the increases made to the miners and dockers. The secretary of the National Union of Railwayruen, in explaining the union’s demand for an additional £1 wccklv, stales that it must not be confused with tlio sliding scale of wages based on the increased cost of living aciepted in January. ‘ ‘ Although that settlement was Comparatively recent, wo think, it right to raise the standard rate 'in view of the fact that the Government lias given the miners an additional 2s daily, and the standardisation of the dockers’ wages to 16s daily,”, he said. “You cannot separate one industry from another these days.. It is the railwaymen’s duty to see that their rates are advanced to correspond, to the charges made in other industries.” GRAVE POSITION IN LANCASHIRE. LONDON, Saturday. The leaders of the Lancashire cotton spinners’ card-room workers are demanding a sixty per cent increase in wages. They refused the employers ’ offer of arbitration, and terminated the negotiations. They will take a ballot for a strike on May Ist, affecting four hundred thousand opera 1 ives. The position is the gravest for many years. BASIC WAGE FOR WOMEN. (Received Monday, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A meeting of the Government Service Women’s Federation decided to urge the Government to establish a board of women to determine the basic wage for women throughout the Commonwealth. A LOCK-OUT. (Received -Monday, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. 'The building trade employees have rejected a proposal to resume work on a basis of a 44-hour week, refusing to return unless a 40-hour week was granted. The employers have decided to institute a Jock-out, and place an embargo on Ihe supply of building materials to all master binders. RAILWAY STRIKE BREAKING UP. (Received Monday, 12.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sunday. The railway strike appears to be breaking up. Thousands' of men are resuming work. 1 Seventeen thousand elevator employees have been ordered to strike owing to the refusal of tlie employers *to increase their wages'.