LABOUR UNREST,

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1911, Page 7

LABOUR UNREST,

TAXI-CAB DRIVERS IN LONDON.. THE. RETBOL TAX. tt PROTEST. By Telegraph.— Vteit Awoeiatlon.-Copyrlgbft, (Received April 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 16th April. A meeting of taxi-cab drivers protested against tho proprietors seeking, by an increase in. fares, to pass on the petrol tax. The drivers threaten to strike if action is taken before the Government investigation ie completed. They also demand daily wages in lieu , of a percentage of the takings. RHONDDA VALLEY STRIKE. AN APPEAL. '. LONDON, ICLh Apr.]. Mr. Heir Hardie, Labour M.P. for Merthyr-Tydvil, hae written to tho Avatralasian miners' unions appealing for assistance for tho hungry women and ; children of the Rhondda Valley coal , strikers. CABMEN'S BOYCOTT OF > WHARVES. REMOVED PENDING ACTION. L (Received April 17, 10 a.nu) MELBOURNE, This Day. The cabmen's boycott of the wharves has been removed, pending action by the City Council. [The cabmen towards the end of last month decided to boycott all incoming inter-State steamers, owing to a-lleged undue proference shown by certain t wharves to vanmen.] FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND RAILWAY STRIKERS. A DECISION ENDORSED. PARIS, 15th April., 1 The Chamber of Deputies, by a large - majority, has 'voted confidence in the ■" Government's declaration of its intention s to adopt measures to influence the railL " way companies to reinstate strikers. M. Monis, the Prime Minister, declared s that the Government did ..not possess li any weapon of compulsion except public t opinion. If their efforts proved uny availing they would ask the Chamber c to supply the necessary power.