CONCILIATION OR WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 212, 6 September 1911, Page 5

CONCILIATION OR WAR.

THE RAILWAYS COMMISSION. BOARDS FOR EACH LINE (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, September 5. Evidence by railway workers is being heard by the Railway Commission. Most of the witnesses favoured special boards for each railway, with a national board as a Court of Appeal. The Commission inquired whether the tribunal should be empowered to arrive at a binding decision. The spokesmen for the Great Eastern and South-eastern employees were against giving an independent chairman and national board the casting vote in order to secure a definite result. Sir Thomas Ellis (one of the members of the Capmission) remarked that without an Sdependent chairman the differences must lead to a deadlock. The South-eastern man replied that it must be conciliation or war. The companies must know that unless they agreed to conciliation it would be war. Two witnesses suggested a fortnight's notice of a strike in the event of the failure of conciliation machinery. THE INITIAL MISTAKE. NO TIME FOR NEGOTIATION. (Received 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. M¥. Thomas Burt, M.P., in a circular addressed to the Northumberland miners, says he feels that the North-eastern Railway Company was hardly treated in the strike. The great initial mistake was giving only a day's ultimatum, and not allowing time for negotiation. STATE TRIBUNALS. (Received 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 5. Mr. W. P. Reeves, speaking at the British Association, urged State tribunals, similar to those of New Zealand, for settling strikes. BRISTOL DOCKERS OUT. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 5. The majority of the dockgate men at Bristol and Avonmouth have struck because the others would not join the trades union. TROUBLE IN AUSTRIA. 810 INCREASE DEMANDED. (Received 8.5 a.m.) VIENNA, September 5. Five hundred delegates from the railwaymen's organisation in all parts of Austria met and favoured the* demand of a 20 per cent increase owing to a general rise in the cost of living. Some of the speakers foreshadowed a general strike similar to that in Britain, but finally a general meeting of employees decided to submit the demands to the Government without threats of a strike. TROUBLE IN AMERICA. (Received 10.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 5. The president r>f the Illinois Central Railway refused to meet the employees, woo demanded recognition of the unions. A striek is imminent.