Brisbane Strike.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 February 1912, Page 3

Brisbane Strike.

[l)V KLKCTIUC TKLKORAI'U-COi'ririCin.j [PKIt I'KKSS ASSOCIATION.] THE BRLSRANE STRIKE. IUIhSILVNE, This Day. The Stiike Committee is displayin;,; increased activity. The trend of the la test proposals i.s to throw t!u> burden of the light 011 the Unions concerned in tlio main arteries of trade. Matters are gradually rosidving into a general strike involving r-enmen, waterside. workers iand coal minors. Unionists returning to work .are to contribute to a fund to keep those mentioned in the .strike indefinitely. 'Hllis i.s a counter proposal with a view to extending the trouble throughout Australia. Ample funds are coming forward from other States. There is every prospect of a prolonged .struggle, as tlio employers are showing unprecedented firmness in regard to whom they re-employ. The Daily Mail newspaper has .1eI'iderl not to take compositors who are associated with the Trades Hall, and have invited the men to form a separate Union. At an employers meeting on "Wednesday a master butcher stater tlmt the men returned to work on their own will, and tliat the Strike Comnrttoe replied by calling them out again. Now all 'band's were out. A meat famine is threatened. Practically a full (rain service is running. The manager states that the only thing to interfere with the servive i.s the exhausting of the coal supplies. lequirieis have already Ik en commenced with Japan with a view to importing coal to Brisbane for the vessels as tliev arrive. Ti:e seamen have now been called o'ii. They are considered one of p. iiiripal factors in the fitrlit. The committee hope, through their agency. to completely paraly e trade. MFLROURNE, This Day. A meeting of the Federal Executive cf the Tramway Employees' Association will he hold on Tucsdav to ■arrangc'l a. ballet on the question of <1 general strike of tlio tram way o • ployees of Australia.