GREAT LOCK-OUT.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17402, 13 March 1922, Page 7

GREAT LOCK-OUT.

BRITISH SHIPBUILDERS AND ENGINEERS. NXSABIiST 1,000,000 MEN AFFECTED. (By Cable—Press Association—CopyrifW") (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) • LONDON, March 10. The conference between the Council of the Shipbuilding and Engineering Employers' Federation and the committee of the Shipbuilding and Engineering Trades' Federation was adjourned after three hours.

Sir Allan Smith (chairman of the managing committee of the Engineering Employers' Federation) told the men's representatives that the latter must accept the employers' demand regarding managerial functions in the workshops before steps were taken to postpone the issue of the lock-out notices- . .

The conference broke up after sitting for three hours. The position is still critical. _ , Later.

The engineers' trade unions have broken off the negotiations with the employers. _ The lock-out notices will become effective at midnight to-night. A conference of delegates of the engineering unions considered their representatives' report, and decided they could not accept or recommend the acceptance of the employers' demands. By noon to-morrow 500,000 skilled engineers will be unemployed, and by Wednesday a further 400,000 will be idle.

The Clydeside is keenly disappointed at the collapse of the negotiations, which will mean an additional 70,000 unemployed in the Glasgow area. (Received March 13th, 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. The engineering lock-out has begun. The employers are allowing the other unions covering the general workers in the engineering trades until March 23rd to take a ballot. If they reject the employers' terms, the lockout notices wilk immediately apply to them.

There is a hopeful feeling that the lock-out will not last long, especially if the general woikers accept the employers' terms,'which it is considered they most probably will do.