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Show EcDsr Hot!?, j ( The Brewers will meet in hall No. 2 cf the Federation of Labor tonight The Bakers will meet In hall No. 4, and the Plasterers, in, hall No. 5. . - The. Joiners strike in the shipping yards f . oti the northeast Kngiish coast continues. ! Tho representatives of the men made an , j offer recently to accept the reduction of Is 6d a week and resume work on certain conditions. These were that the notices j ..be withdrawn for six months, and that 1n ; j the interval the basis of agreement be settled, and. further questions of overtime l and winter hours be the same as for other trades in the district- This, of course, is a rejection of the employers' terms, but with counter proposals. ; , " At Battle Creek. Mich., 'an employers and employees' union has been organized for tho purpose of protecting both Interests Inter-ests from strikes and other dissensions I ; and to bring about co-operation, better j relations between employer and employee, j The union favors a standard market price fqr labor, daily or weekly reports of ' The labor market and deposits 'by both j employer and employee as a guarantee of I -fsithful performance of contract. Both i parties are deprived of the power to force ! wages up or down, the union believing that power to be the chief cause of trou- ' - ble between employer and employee. . "On the application of the proprietors of I the Denaby & Cadeby main colliers a j large number of the men on strike were ordered-by the court at Doneaster, England, Eng-land, to quip their homes within twenty- one days. The technical objections raised 'on their behalf were overruled. A curious cate has arisen in connection with the f trike. One of the members of the York-- York-- thire Miners' association has raised the oiestion as to whether the union has the r-ght to grant strike pay to the men who are out. The case is to be heard on Jan- I nary 14th. The strike has lasted twenty- j four weeks: the number of men affected is about 2000, and the payments amount to about J&OJO per week. |