A UNION COMMUNIQUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1926, Page 7

A UNION COMMUNIQUE.

MESSAGE FROM RAILWAYMEN

THE RIOTS AT GREENWICH.

(Eeceived 2 p.m-) LONDON, May 10. A Trade Union Congress communique •ays that the front remains unbroken and the difficulty is to keep other men in pending any decision to call them out. . It quotes a message from the National Union of Railwaymen declaring that the reports that men have returned to work at different centres is proved to be entirely without foundation. It also quotes a message from the National Unioa of Transport Workers that all are sol;d and showing a wonderful spirit. The Trades Union Congress adds that it has received a message from the master of Balliol and the master of Oxford University earnestly hoping for future p«aee and unity in the country, and that nothing may be allowed to stand in the way of an attempt to resume negotiations. The senders state that this resolution was signed by fifty-eight Fellows and LIS other graduates. The Irish Trade Unionists have complied with the Trades Union Congress request to hold up shipments of foodstuffs to Britain from the Port of Dublin. This brought cross-ch&nnel shipments to a standstill and the prices of farm produce have fallen considerably in the free State. The English mails which reached l-ingston on Friday niaht have since

been held up owing to the dockers' refusal to handle them. Volunteers ,have now taken them off under police protection. A seaman was sentenced to three months' hard labour at Greenwich for urging a big crowd to set about the police. The superintendent said the accused's' ccnduct led to fifteen arrests and originated the trouble at Dcptford on Saturday night, necessitating the calling out of one hundred police. Bricks and bottles were thrown and plate-glass windows were smashed. Three others were sentenced to one month and two months' hard labour. A special French correspondent sent to London by a number of French newspapers loudly praises the measures taken by the British Government Jo cope with the situation. Pertinax of the "Echo de Paris" expresses the opinion that the back of the strike is already broken.-*— (A. and N.Z.) THE EMERGENCY ACT. LABOUR LEADERS ARRESTED. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, May 10. Two Durham Labour leaders. Lawther, ex-Parliamentary candidate for South Shields, and Bolton, chairman of the Blavdou Urban District Council, have been arrested under the Emergency Act at Winlaton. They were charged and remanded, bail being" refused in both cases—(A. and N.Z.)