LABOUR FRICTION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 5

LABOUR FRICTION.

OVER THE EIGHT HOURS ACT. WILFUL DAMAGE BY MOBS. CONFLICTS WITH POLICE. j (By Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright.) (Received July 10, 8.25 a.m.) L"ONDON, 9th July. Owing to friction over the working of the Eight Hours Act, mobs of men and boys are marching through the North Staffordshire colliery towns, breaking down fences and walls. Frequent conflicts have occurred with the police. The trouble was due to the pit boys wanting a special lunch time, which was impossible without a general stoppage of work. There are fifteen thousand strikers in the Sheffield district. NOVA SCOTIAN TROUBLE. PROTEST AGAINST SUMMONING TROOPS. DYNAMITE USED. (Received July 10, 8.25 a.m.) OTTAWA, 9th July. The Mayor of Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova- Scotia, where a thousand strikers attacked workers in the coalmines who* refused to join them, has protested against the summoning of troops, alleging that the local police are adequate. He offered to swear in five hundred special constables to preserve order. Prior to the arrival of the troops the strikers blew up a railway truck' with dynamite, destroyed other property, and poured shots into buildings. NOTICE TO SCOTCH COLLIERS. STRIKE PROBABLE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 9th July. Scottish colliery owners have posted notices announcing that after the 26th 11 instant a reduction of 6d per day will be made in miners' wages. There are indications that in the event of a strike the stoppage will be confined to Scottish mines, though English and Welsh miners will give financial support to the northern men.