LABOUR DISPUTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1320, 26 December 1911, Page 5

LABOUR DISPUTES.

COTTON TRADE TROUBLEGREAT LOCK-OUT DECIDED ON. RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES, By Teleeraph—Press Association—OoDjrieht London, December 22. The cotton raillowncrs met at Manchester to consider the position caused by tho ttriko at Accringtou over the employment of two non-unionists. Jt was decided (o declare a lock-out from Wednesday nest affecting JCO.OOO workers. Tho mills ivill remain closed until tho non-unionist question has becu settled. Many of (.he. employers regret that tho trade unions ore forcing the situation, trade is at tho height of prosperity. Tho weavers' strike was precipitated by the refusal of a man and his wife to become members of the workers' union. Tho Blackburn millowners instructed their delegates to tho cotlon-workors' and spinners' conference fo support the lockout. (R«c. December 23, 5.3 p.m.) London, December 2t. The non-unionist difficulty arose in the Nelson Colne district owing to the. Weavers' Union declining to recogniso a separate trade union which tho Roman Catholics had created in consequence of .i secularist resolution adopted at the Trades Union Congress. TRADE UNION PLANS. (Rec. December 26, 0.20 a.m.) London, December 25. Owing to the Lancashire lock-out, a sub-committee of tho General Federation of Trade Unions will shortly consider the calling out of all members of tho unions not involved in the dispute, or the establishment of a fighting fund to meet future similar emergencies in any given trade. j DUNDEE STRIKE SETTLED. INTERNATIONAL TROUBLE THREATENED. London, December 21. Tho Dundee strike has been settled. The carters' minimum wage has been advanced two shillings weekly. ?.nd the dockers by a halfpenny an hour. London. December 23. The transport workers have blocked cargo for Dundee at Leith, Hull, Grangemouth, and Liverpool. The shipping firms are arguing that tho dockers' strike is now national, and liavo withdrawn their proposed terms of compromise. The dockers have replied that this decision may possibly lead to an international strike. ' Sir G. 11. Askwith, of the Labour Department of the Board of Trade, is to mediate in the trouble. ' London, December 22. Thirty of the mills at Dundee have bc-en closed, owing to the absence of coal. Thirty thousand employees are idle. Rioting took place to-day. The police made baton charges. FREMANTLE .LUMPERS' STRIKE. Perth, Dccembor 25. The coal-lumpois' trouble at Fromantlo coutiuuca and tho wharves are idle. NEWCASTLE STRIKE ENDS. London, December 25. The Newcastle carters' strike has been settled on the basil of a shilling a week advance. MINERS' MINIMUM WAGE. London, 'December 24. "The Times" declares that tho miners' demand for a minimum wage is one of tho untoward results of the eight-hour system, under which the men are now earning less than formerly. SYDNEY 'TRAMWAYMEN'S WAGES. Sydney, December 21. The increase in tho city tramway-men's wages represents an annual increase of .£70,000 in the expenditure.