AFTER THE STRIKES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1218, 29 August 1911, Page 5

AFTER THE STRIKES.

RAILWAYMEN'S DISCONTENT. MINERS READY TO FIGHT. By Telegraph-Press Assoriation-CopyTight (Itcc. August 28, 11.33 p.m.) * London, August 28. The speakers at a mass meeting of railwayman at Ban-, while accepting tho terlns of settlement pending tlio-Commis-sioner's report, declared that they would 1)0 satisfied with nothing short of complete recognition of tho unions. A motion was carried expressing contempt at the action of tho railwaymen's executive, which was described as tho greatest betrayal of tho workmen tho world had seen. One of the most prominent of the Welsh miners' leaders, speaking at Cardiff, said the labour troubles wore only beginning. Tho time had come when the miners, rail-way-men, and dockers should act under a unified organisation. Most of tho miners' leaders were ready for a big fight to a finish.

Mr. D. ,T. Shacklcton, formerly a Labour M.P., and now Senior Labour Adviser to (he Home Office, will represent the Homo Office at tho Trades Union Congress, which opens at Newcastle on September 4.

The appointment is attributed to tho Government's desire to keep moro closely in touch with trade union developments.

.1 STRIKE'PREVENTION. ME. CROOKS'S BILL. London, August 27, „Tho Bill to be introduced by Mr. Will Crooks, Labour member for Woolwich, makes provision for compelling employers and workers to give thirty days' notice of any chango affecting working conditions nnd wages. It fixes penalties for lock-outs and strikes, or inciting thereto, prior to the investigation of a dispute by a board consisting of three members appointed by the Board of Trade on the application of tho parties to the dispute.