LABOUR MATTERS

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16986, 8 November 1920, Page 7

LABOUR MATTERS

SOUTH WALES "GINGERITES."

■v 5 - C*.b'c—Press Association —CopvrigW (Australian and N.Z. Cable As ociation.) (Received November 7th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 5. Mr Vernon Hartshorn, a Labour member of the House of Commons, has definitely resigned his membership of the Miners' Federation as a pretest against innuendoes that he sold the men. In a letter to the newspapers he declares that a group of "Gingerites" was formed in the South Wales Federation, and was deliberately developing r. policy of cutting down the output and organising strike after strike in order to ruin the :n.'mtiy. It den ounces every one uho i.s not prepared to assist in the promotion of this insane policy. ATTACK ON THE BOLSHEVIK fj. (Received November 7th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November G. A meeting of the executive committee of the Geneva International in London, at which Mr Arthur Henderson presided, issued :i manifesto urging the workers to fiirht for the ideals of Democratic Socialism against the slavery of capitalism, and against the tyrannical dictatorship of Bolshevism. The manifesto accuses the Third International of being a demoralising armed dictatorship, seeking to impose its will upon the Socialists and Labourites of the whole world. They robbed the workers of freedom and seek to prevent the creation of economic democracy.

WOMEN TEACHERS' DEMANDS. (Received November 7th. 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 6. Thousands of women teaclm-s in the London and provincial schools demonstrated in Trafalgar square during a dense fo& demanding equal ]>ny for enual work. They protested agrairist the scale of salaries recommended by the committee of investigation, over which T.rr/1 Burnham presided. ( Received November 7th, midnight). LONDON, November 7. Despite the Trafalgar square demonstration, the Conference of the National Union of Tecichers by 04.982 votes to 37,547 adopted Lord Burnham's report. WHOLESALE DISMISSALS. LONDON. Novmber 6. _ The Great Western Railway Co. in Ireland has dismissed 3000 employees owing to their refusal to handle munitions during the boilermakers' strike. THE AUSTRALIAN HARVEST. SYDNEY, November 6. Officials of li'ie Australian Workers' Union and the Farmers' Association are criticising each other over harvesting in a manner reminiscent of the shearing dispute. Mr Lambert, secretary of the Union, says that it is impossible to do harvesting without the assistance of his members. Mr Campbell, secretary of tihe Farmers' Association, replies that, the Association will rely on volunteer labour from the city and country. Tho Acting-Premier, Mr Dooley, intervened with a statement that the Labour Government was pledged to ■arbitration, and no party was able to say off-hand what the workers should or should not get.