WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 14573, 23 May 1911, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

THE LANCASHIRE COTTON TRAD&. THE NON-UNIONISTS AGAIN. Frc*s Association—By Telegraph.—Copyrig'st, LONDON, May 22. A crisis is threatened in the Lancashire cotton trade, owing to the weavers objecting to work, with non-unionists. Tire Northern weavers are amalgamating. Ait a meeting representing 300.000 employees it was resolved to support any local union striking against, the non-unionists if 95 per eeiit. of the employees arc unionists. THE LAISOREi; AND HIS DIRE. LONDON, May 22. Jieecived May 23. at 9.35 a.in.) The conference of railway clerks' associations defeated a resolution deprecating Labor M.P.s charging fees for speaking at propaganda meetings in the provinces. GASWORKS STRIKE. BRISBANE, May 21 (Received There is a strike at the gasworks ovef' the company refusing to reinstate the president of the union. The president gar* provisional notice of strike, then wished to retract it. Meantime, the company had iilled the position of the forty men on strike. The works are closed. Aboafr three days' .supply of gas is stored. A GREAT LOCK-ODT. BERLIN, May 22. (Received Hay 23, at 12.17 p.m.) The lock-out of 10,000 trade unionist textile operatives at Mnenster has begun.