LABOR TROUBLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3435, 29 January 1912, Page 5

LABOR TROUBLES.

GREAT NORTHERN CO.’S CARTERS

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT] LONDON, Jan. 26. The Great Northern Company’s carters are willing to resume provided their comrades’ case is submitted to arbitration. THE RED FLAG OF LIBERTY. Mir Ramsay MacDonald, presiding at a meeting in the Birmingham Town Hall, appealed to the Labor leaders to go forward until the red flag of liberty of the Socialist superseded the skull and crossbones of the tariff reformer. FOREIGN POLICY CONDEMNED. The Labor conference condemned the foreign poKcy, armaments, and militarism, and favored inquiry into how far a general strike in the countries concerned! would tend to avert war. The conference also urges the establishment of the principle of the right to work, in order that the reduction of armaments may not involve any unnecessary hardships on the workers. MINERS’ WAGES. A sub-committee of the mine owners and the miners sat for three days m London, endeavoring to find a basis for settlement in the minimum wage dispute. It is understood that a settlement was agreed upon, subject to confirmation by the principals. , WIVES WOULD STOP STRIKES. HOBART, Jan. 27. At the Liberal Women’s Conference, a delegate, referring to the injustice of giving preference to" unionists, said she would like to see a secret ballot of the wives of the workers before a strike. That would stop it on the spot. ENGINEERS’ STRIKE. PERTH, Jan. 2.. As a result of the engineers’ strike, 200 casual hands in the railway workshops have been paid off. The navvies’ strike has collapsed.