LABOUR TROUBLES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12394, 19 February 1908, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

Engineers Accept Employers' Terms,

12,000 Workers Strike To-morrow

Press Association. — Telegraph.— Copyright, fieceived February 18, 11.40 p.m. SYDNEiY, February 18. The casual hands in. the timber trade resume work at 1& l£d per hour, an advance of three halfpence. The other employees resume unconditionally, pending arbitration.

Received February 19, 8.45 a.m.

LONDON, February 18. Eighteeen thousand, engaged in the engineering shops on the North East Coast, accepted the employer's modified reduction of a shilling a week, but of the 12,000 members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Steam Engine Makers, and Machine Workers' Societies, 6140 voted to strike, instead of accepting the reduction, 1307 against. The strike begins to-morrow.