INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 242, 29 September 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL STRIFE.

UNREST IN IRELAND AND

BRITAIN. ANOTHER BIG STRIKE THREATENED. [l’ It ESS ASSOC lAT 10 X--CO P Y II IGIIT. ] ■London, Sept. 28. Mr. Keir Haritie. at Mountainas'i. declared that, unless the railwaymen s demands were adjusted there would be a strike paralysing every line in Britain. If there was going to be trouble the miners and railwaymen would both strike together throughout the United Kingdom. Two days would suffice to secure for the colliers 8 - as a day’s minimum wage, and for the railwaymen a reasonable living wage. IRISH RAILWAY STRIKE. Despite the absence of cargoes the Great Western Railway is maintaining steamboat service between Fishguard and Rosslare at a daily loss of £4-10

Efforts arc being made to settle on the basis of eliminating timber and allowing the railways to adjust their differences with the railwaymen apart from the Transporters’ Union. The Great Southern Railway receives a deputation from the men today.

The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants suggested that the men should relinquish boycotting blacklegs and that the companies should reinstate the strikers.

About 310 men employed on the Great Southern Railways’ locomotive works at Limerick were discharged. THE STRIKE COMMISSION. Four representatives of the Irish railways testified before the Commission. The manager of the Midland and (IrcTit. Western Railway s, relerring to the Irish strike, said it seemed inconceivable that the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants should have power to paralyse tlie trade of the country and yet go unpunished. It was an unfortunate state of the law, which ought to be remedied, CLYDE ENGINEERS.

London, Sept. 28,

The Clyde holdcrs-on, who defied the executive and struck, have resumed, pending a national conference of holders-on and rivetters.

POSITION AT MT. LYELL. (Received 29. 9.45 a.m.) Hobart, Sept. 29. There is no improvement m the position at Mt. Lyell. Fearing a lengthened struggle, many of the miners arc leaving. Tlie directors and officials of the mines are conferring at Melbourne. THE LITHGOW STRIKE. CONFERENCE TO-DAY . Sydney, Sept. 29. At the instance of the Minister of Public Works, a conference between the txv’d parties of the Lithgow strikewill be held in Sydney to-day.