LABOUR WARFARE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1244, 28 September 1911, Page 5

LABOUR WARFARE.

e '■ —• SERIOUS RIOTING AT SWANSEA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 26. : There;has been serious rioting at Swansea in connection with the wagon workers' strike. A. crowd at midnight invadod the works. They smashed tho contents of tho buildings. The women urged drunken men, stripped to (he waist, to assault the caretakers. The police used their batons, and tho crowd retaliated with stones. Ten -policement were injured. Order has been restored. STRIKE AT DEPTFORD. London, September 2G. five hundred coal porters and dock hands at Deptford have ctruck. The trouble is alleged to be due to tho dock-owners not complying with a recent awaTd. Dockers elsewhere aro disinclined to handle goods from tho affected area, 1 A COLLIERY DISPUTE. Sydney, September 27. Troublo is threatened in the South Coast cplliories. Under the Wages Board award after tho last strike, for the past six months tho selling price of coal has been Bs. Bd. per ton instead of 9s. 2d. Tliis involves proportional reduction in tho hewing rate, to which tho miners \ aro strongly averse. A 'special meeting of tho Delegate Board has been called. There is reason to believe tho board will vote against tho reduction. BRITISH STRIKE COMMISSION. (Rec. September 28, 0.10 a,m.) London, September 27. Sir Guy Granet, general manager of the Midland Railway, in testifying before tho Strike .Inquiry Commission, objected to tho recognition of the men's unions on 'the ground of the sanctity of tho present contract, cmbodj-ing a solemn bargain for a term of seven years,, and also because of the impossibility of tho unions securing obedience to agreements, or even the observance of their own rules, as was seen at Liverpool, where Messrs. Williams and Thomas found the men out df hand, and wero compelled to swim with the stream, or loso whatever influence they possessed. MOUNT LYELL DISPUTE. (Rec. September .28, 0.10 a.m.) , Hobart, ■September 27. Mr, Little, secretary of tho Miners' Union, strongly denies tho statement by Mr. Deakin, that the Labour party had brought about the Mount Lyell strike. Both sides, he declares, tried to avoid a strike, which he thinks will not bo of long duration. Tho strike pay amounts to ,£2OOO weekly.