INDUSTRIAL DOINGS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 123, 21 November 1911, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL DOINGS.

THEATRICAL EMPLOYEES.

UNIONISM v. NON-UNIONISM.

EXTENSION OF BOYCOTT.

67 Telegraph.—JPr«s« AißOclatlon.~Cop/rlgn» (Received November 21, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Theatrical Employees' Association hae decided to extend the boycott to non-unionists in all the other States, and has given them seven days to join the union.

BRITISH RAILWAY MEN,

IF ANOTHER STRIKE WERE PRE-

CIPITATED.

" NATIONAL CRIME AND

BLUNDER,"

LONDON, 20th November,

Mr. J. H. Thomas, Labour M.P. for Derby, at a meeting of railway men at Bury declared that it would be a national crime and blunder if a strike were again precipitated, simply owing to the refusal of both parties to meet once more and discuss the whole situation. The meeting unanimously resolved to fight for reasonable wages and hours, and the recognition of the unions in all, negotiation*. Six thousand railway men at Bradford, with two dissentients, favoured a strike to secure recognition for the now programme. A . similar resolution was passed unanimously at Nottingham and Manchester.

Mr. Fox, secretary of the Locomotive Engineers' Society, at a meeting at Crewe, said the railway men were morally bound to accept the Railway Strike Commission's findings. The scheme was a great improvement on the 1907 agreement. -

The Amalgamated Railway Men's North-Eastern District Council, at a meeting at Nowcaetle, by 56 to 20, recommended the North-Eastern railway men to abstain from the ballot. Subse* quently, at a mass meeting, the railway men recommended a strike to secure recognition of the unions. ' ' *••

{At the Railway Commission's sitting 6 ?x if j September, a special interest attached to the evidence of Mr. ButterA'orth by reason of the fact that the North-Eastern is the only one of the principal railways which has conceded the principle of the official recognition of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servant*, and the relation of his experiences with, the union was followed with close attention by those managers of other companies who were in attendance. It may be recalled that, in the course of his evidence, Lord Claud Hamilton declared that the result of conceding recognition had been to produce "chaos and disaster" on the system of the NorthEastern. Mr. Butterworth replied that their "North Country friends" laughed at such a suggestion, l and he asked those who made it to consult the Stock Exchange lists to see whether, the company s stocks were in any worse position than others. He frankly admitted that recognition had not prevented trouble on the railway, and he confessed that recent developments in trade unionism, especially as manifested in the recent national stoppage and the present strike in Ireland, might call for a reconsideration of the company's relations with the A.S.R.S. in important particulars. Mr. •Butterworth very strongly insisted that recognition, if it was effectively to make for peace, must be voluntary in its character, and he enumerated the conditions which must, bo fulfilled if the principle, in the wide sense in which it had Deen spoken of by previous witnesses, was to bo accented on railways generally.] .

TEACHERS' WAGES .BOARD.

PROPOSAL "CONDEMNED,

SYDNEY, 20th Novnmbcj. Replying to a deputation, Mr. A. C. Carmicllael, Minister for Public Instruction and Labour, condemned unmistakably the proposal for a Teachers', Wages Board, and said the present machinery was sufficient. '

cabinet minister thanked,

BY BAKERS'' UNION,

SYDNEY, 20th November. Mr Carmichaei has received a letter from the Bakers' Union, thanking him for his successful efforts towards con» ciliation, and agreeing to submit their troubles to tfte .Wages Board.