LABOUR DISPUTES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17811, 10 July 1923, Page 7

LABOUR DISPUTES.

BRITISH DOCKERS' STRIKE. AN ENQUIRY WANTED. (BY CABLB—PRESS ASSOCIATIOS—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIA* AXD N.Z. CABLS ASSOCIATIOX.) LONDON, July S. The greater part of the London and tho provincial docks are still idle, but the London men are disheartened at the refusal of the employees of the Port of London Authority to join them. Fruit and other produce is scarcer and dearer this week-end. The Manchester dockers pas=ed a. resolution asking for an impartial enquiry into the method of compiling the cost-of-living figures, and stating that they were willing to work in the meantime, [The cause of the strike is that under the national agreement wages were redlueed by one shilling a day owing to.' the fait in the cost of living. Tho men, however, dispute the Board of Trade figures, and nave struck in defiance of the union loaders, who strongly urge the men to honour tho agreement made iu their namo.] NOVA SCOTIA STRIKE. MINERS' OFFICIALS ARRESTED. OTTAWA, July 8. The strike troubles in Nova Scotia continue. Orders have been issued for the arrest of the president and tho secretary of the branch of the United Mine Workers of America, whoso members have struck in sympathy with the steel workers, as a protest against the occupation of the Cape Breton area by Federal and provincial troops. Additional troops are being sent to the disturbed area. Later. A telegram from Sydney, Nova Scotia, says Dan Livingston, president, and James MacLaehlin, secretary of the loca.l branch of tho United Mine Workers of America, hare been arrested, following their circulation of a letter urging a general coal-miners' strike as a protest against police and military measures in connexion with the steel strike. [Previous messages said that 4000 workers in the employ of the British Empire Steel Corporation had struck for a 30 per cent, increase in wages, on eighkhour day, and the check system, for the collection of union dues. The strikers attempted a raid on the company's works, and a bitter fight with the police, lasting two hours, followed. Troops from Halifax quelled the riot. Later, 8000 minors struck in synyxithy with the striking steel workers, making 10,000 strikers iu, ihe Cape Breton district. The miners threaten to remain idle until GOO Federal troops and provincial police are removed.]