LONDON BUILDING STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 5

LONDON BUILDING STRIKE.

j MEN REFUSE A CONFERENCE. j j LONDON. May 2S. j Tlip ballot, by tli" Ixindon builders' j [employees rr-jiVK'ii. by a. large majority.' (the proposal for a joint conference} i between the masters and the men. I i The master builders -haM requested I the National l-'ederat-ion l<l declare a national lockout in the buildintr trade?. Jlif ili.'-puJ' , iinif<> over n rulo of Uir | . ngTepvr,r-M. N'tuTin tho Master A-sni-i:itk>n and fivp of | I tin- mrm't swiftios. which providr-s that, j :no o-u-r-ption haII tx- in the rni-i liloyiiiPnt "r non-rmplovmoni of a man on | ! ihc OTOiind tha.t lio is ur not a mrmbrr of such society or soviftiop. T?iiji ruin has boon vpry unpopular witll rprtain B*M*ti*>ns r> f llif* union who ha-TP protested against it. and in fomp instnnrcs ortranisod local strikr , '. The Master Builders' Association issued a circular inforniinf; thnir employrcs that | it. would be a condition of employment I that, the men pledjro Ihpmwlvrs t-n work [carefully with no n -unioni?ts. All the workmen who did not Fi£m an undertaking to thai rffec.t would he deemed In ha.ye terminated their enfrafrement. ]n the oonc.iliai ion procecdinsr s fche master? demanded monetary alia ran tees from the men. The men emphatically declined to entertain any filch proposition.