LABOUR UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1245, 29 September 1911, Page 5

LABOUR UNREST.

IRISH,RAILWAY STRIKE. NEW BASIS OF SETTLEMENT PROPOSED. MR. KEIR-HARDIE'S PROPHECY. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rcc. September 28, 10,10 p.m.) London, September 28. Despite tho absence of cargoes the Great Western Railway Company is maintainin!,' i's steam-boat service between l'ishguard and Rosslare at a daily loss of .£llO. Effort's aro being made to settle tbo railway strike on the basis of eliminating tiraljcT traffic—tbo striko arose through tho handling of non-union timber—and allowing tbo railways to adjust their other differences with tbo railwaymen apart from the Transportras' Union. Tho Irish Great Southern Railway Company is to receive a deputation from tho men to-day. Tho Amalgamated Society of Rail-way Servants suggests that tho men should relinquish boycotting blacklegs, and tbo companies should reinstate the strikers. Threo hundred and forty men, employed at the Great Southern Company's locomotivo works at Limerick, have been dis-. charged. Four representatives of the Irish railways testified before tho Strike Inquiry Commission. Tho manager of t'he Mid-land-Great Western, in referring to tho Irish strike, said it seemed inconceivable that the Amalgamated Railway Society servants should bavo tho power to paralyse tho trado of the country and yet go unpunished. It was an unfortunato state of tho law which ought to bo remedied. A GREAT STRUGGLE COMING. SOCIALIST LEADER'S ADVICE. (Roc. September 29, 0.10 a.m.) , ' London, September 28. Mr. Keir Hardie, Labour M.P. for Mertbyr Tydvil, in a speech at Mountain Ash, in Glamorganshire, declared that unless the railwaymen's demands were adjusted there would bo a striko paralysing every lino in Britain. If there was going to bo trouble in tho mines and on tbo railways, it was advisablo that both should striko together throughout' the kingdom. Two days would then suffice, to secure for the colliers eight shillings as the day's minimum wage, and a reasonable living wage for the railway-

DUBLIN BAKERS ON STRIKE. London, September 27. Improved train services are being carried on on the Irish railways. Tho Dublin bakers have struck;for an increaso of a shilling weekly. Tho Clyde "holders-on," who struck in defianco of tho union's executive, have resumed work, pending a national confcronco between tho lioldcrs-on and the riveters. Tho War Offico is subsidising private petrol motor-lorries, to bo purchasable in case of national emergency. MOUNT LYELL STRIKE EXTENDING. Hobart, Soptember 28. The Mount Lyoll strike is extending. The moulders havo ceased work, and the foundry is closed. At a meeting of wharf labourers at Strahan it was decided not to handle any non-union oro or copper from the mines. Tlie. ptcamers at present loading will bo served, but only general cargo and union ore will'bo handled on the subsequent vessels. The directors aro firm, and intend to close tho mines until the dispute is settled. Tho other sido proposes to invoke the Arbitration Court. 1 Tho waterside workers refuso to handle cargo by the steamers Wareata, Toroa, ahd Marrawah, owing to the owners employing non-unionist crews, NEW SOUTH WALES COLLIERY DISPUTE. Sydney, September 28. Tho Southern colliery proprietors announce that the reduction in tho hewinr rato, which the miners fear, is not at prosent contemplated.