THE LABOUR UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 986, 29 November 1910, Page 5

THE LABOUR UNREST.

VIOLENCE IN WALES. BITTER TIME FOR CHILDREN. By Tekfraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Eee. November 28, 9.30 p.m.) London, November 28. The colliery strikers at Gilfnchcoch thrashed the carpenters who were erecting a shed for-the Minister l\isiliers,-as they believed the- carpenters had been imported to stoke and pump in the mines. AGAINST A GENERAL .-STRIKE. Twenty-sevpn thousand anthracite miners have refused the Aherdare .deputation's request for a general strike, in the Aberdare district, FEEDING THE CHILDREN, The local education authority has exhausted. . the funds available under the Provision of Meals Act, and is appealing for funds to prevent tnree thousand children from suffering terrible privations during the bitter weather. , : .

WHERE THE RESPONSIBILITY IS. Mr. Keir Hardie, Labour M.P. for Merthyr Tyilvil, in a speech at Huddersfield, stated that tho miners of South Wales had got the enginemen and stokers to como out becauso they knew the mines would then fill with water, and tho owners would want a settlement. It was true that the Labour-Socialist party was responsible ror the labour unrest OFFICIALS STONED. x London, November 27. The officials who are working to pre-. vent tho destruction of the Glamorgan collieries were heavily stoned during a temporary relaxation of, tho police vigil, BOILERMAKERS' LOCK-OUT* NEW- PROPOSALS. London, November 27. The boilei-Makers have formulated proposals io submit to the masters.. ' PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT. THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY. London, November 27. Sir Christopher Fiirness, M.P. for. Hartlepool, and head of several industrial enterprises in tho northern, counties, presiding at a 'meeting of tho Richardson, Westgarth Company, said that unless the men co-operated in maintaining industries unemployment would increase. The policy of taking the maximum of woTk at any price for tho sole purpose of covering working expenses would bring the. shipping industry into commercial disrepute. What was wanted on the.North East Coast, added Sir Christopher, was tho creation of a united constructive' policy. A large saving was possible by this means. Ho was aghast at tho continuance .of tho present system.