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THE UNREST IN THE LABOUR* WORLD. DISSATISFIED MINERS IN CANADA. COTTAGES BLOWN* UP. 6j T«legf*ph.-» fres* A isolation -Copjrlcfat, (Received August 28, 9 a«m.) OTTAWA, 2?tli August. Cottages occupied by Austrian miners in Alberta, were dynamited following a strike for better condition* in the A>al mine*. Two arrests have been made. MR. WILL CROOKS'S BILL SOME OF ITS PROVISIONS, (Received August 28, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 2?th Atrgust. The BUI to be introduced by Mr. Will Crook, labour member for Woolwicb, nwk"e* provision for <omp«liiAg employers and wofkere to givo thirty days' notice of ftnjr diaiige affecting working condition* a-ivl w*gee. It fixes jfy»alt«e for lock-oat« and (ffcrikef, t*r mcifcfog thereto, prior v> the invtafciga-tios, of a dispute by a board consisting of three members appointed by the Boa« Jo* Trade on *he applicatioir of the partis to' th* dispute, [It vim &&bed a. few dayfi ago tha* Mr. Crookri's Bill also provides thataftef thft board* decision the men are to be ffe« to accept the award or 'to strike. } : COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. SIR W. HALL-JONES'S RECOMMENDATION. (Received August 28, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 27th August. Sir William Hall-Jones, High Commissiontr for New Zealand, in aft interview recommended the adoption, by Britain of compukory arbitration th« <Atne as in New Zealand. LOCK-OUTS IN GERMANY. METAL WORKERS, AFFECTED. (Received August 28, 8 a.m.) BERLIN, 2?th August. The metal masters a-t Dresden, and Chemnitz, have locked out sixty per cent, of the workmen. TRAMWAY STRIKE AVERTED. LOCKOUT AT LIVERPOOL ENDED. SUGGESTED*~PERMANENT VOLUNTEER LEAGUE. THE COST OF "HOUSEKEEPING. LONDON, 26th August. , The threatened tramway strike . in London has been averted. The committee of the London County Council has agreed to recognise the men's union, to settle certain grievances in connection with, the management, and to refer others to a conciliation board. The lightermen's strike has been settled. The shipowners at Liverpool have terminated the lockout of the men. conditionally on all resuming. Otherwise the lockout will be renewed. The Dockers' Union are to give pledges not to supper!, any men wishing to disregard the agreement. Several London newspapers support the suggestion for a permanent volunteer league to carry on public services in the event of a great combined strike. It is suggested that an organisation, should be formed similar to- the "public security brigade" which in 1909 caused the collapse of the general strike in Sweden. The Leeds Chamber of Commerce has urged the Government to repeal the Trades Dispute Act and revise the law as to peacful picketing. The Midland Eailwa-y Company has presented the loyalist men in its service with aWeek'6 pay besides their ordinary wages. Apropos of the wages question the newspapers publish details of the cost of housekeeping. These show that groceries and greengroceries have increased in price by 25 per cent, in the kst> fifteen years. HIOTIN6 IN WALES. BATON CHARGES BY POLICE. THE ANTI-JEWISH DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, 26th August. A dozen baton charges were made by the police at Bargoed and Gilfach, in South Wales, to-day. Several men were injured, and half a dozen premises were damaged. Pr&minent Jews see nothing antiSemetic in the Welsh outburst, which they Tegard aft purely due to hooliganism for the purposes of theft. • TRADE DISPUTES ACT. ' DEMAND FOR ITS REPEAL. LONDON, 26th August. There is a widespread demand in, commercial circles for the repeal of the section of the Trades Disputes Act dealing with peaceful picketing, and the section relieving trades unions from responsibility for their acts. THE USE OP TP.OOPS. DENUNCIATION BY SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. IF A TORY GOVERNMENT HAD SO ACTED. LONDON, 26th August. Speakers at a meeting of the Social Democrat party in Trafalgar-square denounced the use of the troops during the strike 1 . Mr. Ben Tiltett, secretary of the Dockers' Union, declared that if a Tory Government had so acted Mr. Lloyd George would have wept tears of blood at the massacre of his countrymen, Mr. Asquith f wo;ild have declared that the Constitution had been prostituted by Tories and capitalists, while Mf. Churchill would ha*e called ap his father's ghost to wallop the Tories. AMERICAN RAILROAD MEN. THREATENED STRIKE. AN EIGHT-HOUR* DAY WANTED. NEW YORK, 26th August. Twelve thousand men employed on the Illinois Central Railroad at Padnrah, in Kentucky, threaten to strike it timiv demands are not granted. The directors of the company refuse to recognke the union. The federation of shop employees of i the Ilaffhnan railway lines, numbering

thousand", threaten to strike unless their grievances are remedied. Their chief demand is an eight-hour day. A BELATED CABLEGRAM. "\ A cablegram has been received by the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union, as from London, in connection with the unrest among transport workers there, It re&ds as follows : — "New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw, Savill Company are fighting London Waterside Unions. Can you block vessels? "GOSLING, " TILLET, "Dockers, London." The cablegram arrived too late for any action to be taken afc this end, as the waterside workers' and cartets' disputes in London, have been settled.