The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-03-11
Labor Questions.
THE ENGLISH ENGINEERING DISPUTE.

met the emergency committee OF
the Employers Federation at the
Hotel Metropole. The results Of
the ballot OF the men we're laid
on the table, and proved to be
favorable on the whole to the accept
ance on the employers terms. 1t
was then agreed that the vacancies
in the various shops within the con-
troll of the federated owners should
be thrown open on Monday, and
announcements to that effect we're
sent by telegraph to the employers
throughout the country,
The Amalgsmated Society of En-.
gineers on Friday issued manifesto
stating that 2S,5SS votes had been
recorded in favor OF accepting the
employers terms, and 1927 against.
Work was therefore ordered to be
resumed in all the federated work.
shops by Monday.
The report from tho chief centres
affected by the recent dispute show
that, though the applications for re-
engagement were very numerous,
most Of the employers, in accord
ance with the recommendation of
Federation, only took on about 25
percent of the applicants on Mon
day. In some cases there were no
vacancies at all. 1t is anticipated,
however, that in the course Of few
days the majority Of those who are
seeking employment will be taken
on again.
The engagement OF men won't
on actively on Tuesday, and it is
estimated that by evening fully GO
percent OF the who had struck or
been locked out had been taken on
again.
Notices were sent out on Tuesday
night that the federated employers
were at liberty to reinstate full stats
at once, and many OF the shipbuild-
ing and engineering works on the
Clyde recommended nights shifts.
Our special correspondent says:
"The employers will certainly not
dismiss, and they will do their best
to protect, competent men who have
come into their employment during
the course of the struggle. But,
happily, the state Of the trade is
such that there is hope for those
who might in other circumstances
have been left out in the cold.
Orders are many, arrears also are
considerable.
"The further north one gets the
more difficult do men End it to con-
fess themselves beaten. But the
dour Scotchmen once at work will,
l am convinced, work honestly
enough. Ca canny' was really
never a doctrine of the working
man, but always an advisory man
date OF the agitator.
Gan excellent augury for the
future is to be found in the tone of
the employers with regard to the
situation. They might have been
forgiven if they had INDUCED in
peans. As a matter OF fact they de-
precate anything in the nature of
triumph"
Lord Northbourne, who is large
landowner in Jarrow.on-Type, has
written to the Mayor of Jarrow re-
ferring to the publication Of pre-
vious letter bearing on the engineer
ing dispute, written by his lordship
and published throughout the coun-
try. He describes his last letter as
conveying his private opinion, and
he had not wished that his private
opinion should be used for the pur-
pose of rendering him prominent
partisan in a conflict when neutral
ity was the obvious duty of out
siders. His lordship writes that the
dispute is now virtually over, but
there must remain very widespread
distress. His lordship enclosed a
cheque for f100.
IRON TRADE BOARD OF CANCELLATION,
The Goth annual meeting Of the
Board Of Cancellation and Arbitrs-
ton for the Manufactured Iron and
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