INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Evening Star, Issue 17324, 12 April 1920, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

BRITISH RAILWAYMEN DEMAND £1 RISE WEEKLY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. . LONDON, April 9. The railwaymen have applied" for an all-round increase of £1 per week, apart from the increases under the sliding scale. The executive of the National Union of Railwaymen state that general dissatisfaction with the small increase under the sliding scale exists. It is inadequate to meet the extra Cost of Living. Moreover, the Court of Inquiry with reference to the dockers recommend a mini-" mum wage of 16s per day, and the miners have been offered a minimum increase of 2s per day. BRITISH LABOR. BOLSHEVISM DEAD. Eeuter'E T«lerroma. OTTAWA, April 8. Mr Tom Moore, president of the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress,- and Canada's representative at the International Labor Congress held in England under the League of Nations, has returned. He said that Bolshevism was slowly but surely dying in England, where" free speech was killing it. English Labor was learning the. unsoundness of the doctrines, not only from those wishing to discredit the movement, but from tho Radicals themselves. English Labor was becoming disgusted with the Reds and repudiating the movement. British workers undoubtedly were rapidly moving towards a system of State capital and control, especially of the key industries. Bolshevistic soap-box orators abounded, openly advocating the Soviet form of Government for Britain, but nobody paid much attention. He thought that any attempt at revolutionary action would be cfuickiy nipped in the rjud. AMERICAN RAILWAYMEN. WIDESPREAD JTRTKES. NEW YORK. April 9. Nearly 50.000 railroad workers in more than 15 cities from New York to San Francisco are on strike, demanding increased pay. The strike i = not authorised bv the union officials. Chicago and Nov.* York are facing a serious fond shortage. The officials declare that tho railroad traffic is only 50 per cept. of the normal. More than 25 railroads are affected. April 10. The employees of the Hudson and ?vfanhattan tubes voted to r-n on strike this morning, thus completely tieing up New York suburban traffic. The New York 'Times's' Cleveland correspondept says : " A statement has been signed by the chiefs of four large transportation brotherhoods. declaring that- the purpose of the present strike is to destroy th« railway brotherhoods of the United Ptates and to promote the single union idea.