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HISTORY OF THE RECENT DISPUTE.
SATISFACTORY DECISION.
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sente united front in the defence of their mutual intereats and had come to a "momentous and serious recision" In the matters
M. Kirby said, that it was not his intention to make any state- mant regarding the reasons for the Guild Eaking the decisive step that it had, as his idea was that, in all
TRADE FIGURES.
BUREAU RE-OPENING REFERRED BACK.
CHAMBER AND ECONOMY:
Commenting on the withdrawal
The agenda of the Finanes by Mesara Jardine,. .Matheson &negotiations of their character be-Committee yesterday contained Co., Ltd.... of the proposals refer, twean the officers on the Const and reference to the proposed ro- ring to salary reductions for ships their employers, it was always the establishment of the Statistical officers, the China Freas of party who made the first move who Branch of the Imports and Exports should' make; the Arat. útatement. February 28 ways.
As the Company had called for the reduction in wages, the onus of making the first statement for the beness of the public rested with
The decision of the Company was received in Shanghai with general antisfaction by those concerned.
(and has brought to a conclusion a state of affairs between the mon
and their employers that was to say the least, fraught with grave possibilities and difficulties.
It has been commion knowledge
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them.
Department. •
The Chairman said that, with the permission of the Committee, he would withdraw this item and bring It up for consideration at a later Mr. Watson added that he want.date. He Intimated a wish to refer ed it made clear that so far as the the matter to the General Chamber Guilds were concerned the matter of Commerce. was finished.
Hon. Mr. Holyoak said that two months age the Chamber of Com- merce gave a very emphatic opinion in favour of the Statistical Branck being re-established.
The Chairman: And you recom- mended see aconomies.
The Chairman undertook to bring the matter before the meeting of the Finance Committee noxt week.
In conversation later Mr. Watson along the China coast for many said that, in view of the present months that it was proposed to re high cost of living. it was well duce the salaries of officers and engineers, on the ships of a certain below a fair average, but up
known that. the wages were really the company, and when the announce-present, the Guild had refrained ment came from Jardine, Matheson from making any advances for an & Co. it was not unexpected. Increase. The recent trouble only Consequently, when the proposalserved to show the value of the
with. made, it met
strong Gulidy to the peers of the Coast opposition from the China Coast since, without a united front and Officers Gulld and atac the Marine without the support of the other Engineers Guild, both of which members, It was more than likely school was instructing the would
The teacher in the nautica) that the officers of the Company concerned would have been unable be ships officers about the bars- to meet the crisis: He did not feet meter. justified in giving any atutement to Negotiations have been in pres the public at this juncture and gress since last August, when the would withhold any comment until first official intimation of the Com-the Company made their statement. pany's intentions were made known by letter to the Guilds. The latter
made it known in no uncertain volee that such action would meet with the united disapproval of the
members.
Pay And Company's Earnings.. Just, however to show that the
He explained to there that the error in a mercurial barometer was due to capillarity.
'the
He then asked the humoriss of the class, "Now then, Mr. Thomas, what Would cause the error in an stated that Jurdine, Matheson & officers were justified in taking the alcohol barometer?" Co., proposed certain reductions in stand they had, he quoted from
"Hilarity," answered salaries and asked the Guild to sup-the report of the statement made humorist port them.
The matter was dis-by the shipping companies before cussed at various meetings of the the arbitration body in 1917. The Guilds right up to the present time: companies, Jardine, Matheson & and a conference, waar also beld Co. and Butterfield and Swire, with the Company. but nothing stated before the arbitrators inter came out of them and no settlement alla That the rate of pay is not, jeculd be effected. When it was necessarily dependent on the earn-, found that the Guilds would notings of the company, but by the agree in a body to the proposals, volume of the services rendered by private meetings of the Company's the employer in question." The own employees were called in or
clause went on to state "and it is der to put the matter before them, for the officer concerned to estab but the men intimated that the only proper method of discussing the question was through the Guilds. The Company then came back to the Guilds and wanted to make the redaction effective" and Also, wanted to know what the men were going to do. The answer was given in the ultimatum issuedi on Friday.
sh that the existing rate of pay is out of proportion to the service rendered"
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PARENTS ARE OFTEN PUZZLED
to know what medicine to give their little ones. The child, falls sick with griping pains, vomiting, diarrhoea, croup; or suddenly gets feverish, screams for no apparent cause, refuses food,, or vomits up what it has catan, What is to be done on such occasions?' As often as, not there is no suitable medicine in the house, or only Castor Oil, which naturally every child regarde with
abhorrence.
Since a reduction in pey was: the mutter la question on this occasion, not an increase, it was for the Company to
Bhow that the services rendered by the ofleer were not in proportion to the pay and, in doing so, the earnings of This was the history of the dis-the company could not enter into pute as given by Mr. Watson yes the question. The officers of the terday, and be added that, so far as Guilds realised that the companies the Guild was concerned, the mat- had not been experiencing the best ter was finished with now that the of times and this had been a great proposal of the Company had been factor restraining them absolutely withdrawn.
It is to meet exactly such emergencles from making any advances for an
that. Baby's Own Tablets have been increase in salary, despite the in-
designed These pleasant little Tablet's The sending of the ultimatum crease in the cost of lying, the quickly reduce fever,, relieve constipa was the outcome of the decision Mr. Watson stated that the re-tion and colic, stop vomiting, checkt diarrhoea, remedy digestion, ease made at a combined meeting of the cent trouble was the first that had diarrhoea, colds and
and croup; expel worms, allay two Guilds held on Thursday even- Joccurred since the strike in 1916 teething pains as if by magic, quiet the ing, but what transpired at that which was mainly over the recogni- nerver and bring calm restful health- meeting and what was to be the tion of the Guild and also for an restoring sleep. Guaranteed absolutely attitude of the members had the increase in pay. The result of the harmless and anfe even for the youngest company persisted with their pro-strike was the granting of an in- and most delicate infant..
BABY'S OWN TAELETS posals, has not been divulged. crease in wages. There had been Suffefent it is to state that the absolutely
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