NO LAUNDRIES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 15 September 1911, Page 3

NO LAUNDRIES.

One disadvantage of living in Cardiff at the present time is that one can get no clothes or linen washed (wrote the Cardiff correspondent of the 'Daily Mail' on July 26). Every laundry girl, to the number of 1000, has downed her bar of soap or flat iron and all the English laundries are closed. The Chines* laundries have already been wrecked, so they are out of the reckoning. The laundry girls set out on a. recruit march this morning singing the ] strikers' ballad, "Fall in and follow us." They went round to the few washing establishments still open and induced the remaining workers to come out. These lasses of the was<h-tub demand more money and shorter hours. The strike committee on the petition of the tradesmen gave permission today for the great quantities of flour and foodstuffs aboard ships laid up in the docks to be unloaded. The traders pointed out that unless this concession was allowed food would have to be obtained by rail from London and other centres at much-advanced rates. All food, they said, would have to be sold at famine prices. The conditions of the strikers' permission were that the delivery must be carried out by union men and that customers must not be charged more than ordinary prices.

Because the seamen and 'firemen refuse to return to work —although the agreement giving them the terms they asked was signed on Saturday—until the grievances of the various other sectional workers who struck in sympathy with tftie sailors are remedied, the shipowners are likely to take drastic action. A meeting has been ca lelorfdto dA nieeftng has been called for to-mor-row >at whaoh, it is suggested, a resolution rescinding the agreement should be proposed. K this is'.done the whole position will be as it was at the .begin-