FIGHT PUT OFF.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 5

FIGHT PUT OFF.

■ ♦ WELSH MINING TROUBLE. DANGER OF PRECIPITATE ACTION. ADVICE OF LEADERS. By Telegraph.— Preis Aisoclatloii.— Copyrights (Received September 10, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 9th September. Mr. Mabon, M.P. for Rhondda Valley (Glamorganshire), persuaded twelve thousand of the Cambrian Combine colliers to defer striking for a week on condition that a conference representing the whole of the coalfields shall be convened. In a speech supporting Mr. Mabon, Mr. Hartshorn Baid there was danger in precipitate action, which would nip in the bud a movement full of hope. A fight would jeopardise tho position. If twelve thousand men struck before reorganisation was completed they would be unable to put up a fight that would teach tho employers a lesson. [Mr. Hartshorn, who in April last stood for the Mid-Glamorganshire seat but was defeated, speaking at Maesteg, Wales, recently, said they were on the eve of one of the biggeßt industrial upheavals of the age. The Labour leaders had plans, yet undeveloped, which the workers ought not to anticipate.] EXCITEMENT AT CARDIFF. ATTEMPT TO ASSAULT LABOUR LEADERS. (Received September 10, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, 9th September. Thousands at Cardiff hooted the announcement of the postponement of the Cambrian strike. They rushed the institute where the officials were meeting, j broke the furniture, and endeavoured to assault the Labour leaders. NOTICE GIVEN. i CAUSE OF THE CRISIS. SOCIALIST~AGITATION. . LONDON, 9th September. : In connection with the South Wales i mining trouble, 35 pits, employing thirty-five thousand men, have given notice that they will cease working at the end oi the month. The crisis is less a conflict between the workers and the employers than the revolt of a large proportion of tho colliers against the non-Socialist policy hitherto pursued by the South Wales Miners' Federation. The results of the enght hours' system have enabled the Socialist agitators to discredit tho federation. ON THE CLYDE. HOW THE BALLOT IS GOING. LONDON, 9th September. There have been many further dismissals on the Clyde, chiefly of woodworkers. There is much anxiety amongst the boilermakers regarding their idle benefit pay. One branch begins payment to-day. It is believed that the' ballot at Hartlepoola was strongly against the guarantees baing given to tho employers. Some lodges demand that the executive of the union shall not negotiate until the lockout is withdrawn. The Birkenhead ballot was solid for resumption. RESULT OF EXECUTIVE'S APPEAL. (Received September 10, 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, 9th September. The result of the ballot at the northerrn ports was that 10,321 votes were cast in favour of, and 5431 adverse to, j the executive position. The majority empowers the executive to call a representative meeting. ANXIOUSLY AWAITED. BOILERMAKERS' EXECUTIVE HOPE FOR A MAJORITY. (Beceived September 10, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 9th September. The executive of the Boilermakers' Society are anxiously awaiting the result of the ballot, and they hope that a large majority will endorse the proposal for keeping faith with the employers as the only means of safeguarding collective bargaining. Nevertheless, they have arranged, in the event of inadequate support being forthcoming, to call a representative meeting. SLAUGHTERMEN. ANOTHER AGREEMENT. SYDNEY, 9th September. The Slaughtermen's Union has accepted an agreement with the Pastoraf Finance Company, similar to that made with Birt and Company. The two contracts absorb about a hundred slaughtermen. PERTH TRAMWAYS. TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. (Received September 10, 11.10 a.m.) PERTH, This Day The terms of the Tram Strike settlement are that ninety of tho strikers will return to their old positions and work in unison with the non-unionists who have been operating the cars for the past four weeks. They will .work under the Arbitration Award which they previously refused. The award provides for ninetysix hours' work a fortnight, at the rate of a shilling an hour. AN ABORTIVE CONFERENCE. (Received September 10, 11.17 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. With regard to the dispute between the Slaughtermen and the Victorian Meat exporters, a conference proved abortive. The men ask 27s 6d t hundred all round tfor sheep and lambs 'or the approaching export season ; the c? porters offer 26s 3d for sheep and 25s for lambs. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY MEN. STRIKE SETTLED. (Received September 10, 11.30 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. The railway strike has been settled. An independent enquiry will be held regarding the case of the ganger Thompson, whose alleged overbearing ways caused the strike.

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