LABOR MATTERS.
BRISBANE TRAM SERVICE
GENERAL STRIKE PROBABLE
BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION— COPYEIGHT.
BRISBANE, Jan. 29
After a procession through the streets a big demonstration was held in the Park, the Union leaders delivering fighting speeches in favor of strikes.
A conference representing forty-three unions last night resolvejd that the action of the Tramway Company in pfoliibiting the men wearing badges constitutes an attack on unionism, which was recognised under statute law. Unless a satisfactory settlement is reached in the meantime, a general cessation of work will take place on Tuesday evening. The result was greeted with enthusiasm.
A great crowd gathered outside the hall, and Mr Browning, Leader of the Labor Party, in. a speech said the fight was not alone for the tramwaymen, but the whole union movement. The Employers' Federation played a strong part in the trouble, and the Unionists were going to teach them that that if. ■they were going to stand behind the Tramway Company the unionists as a tody would also take a hand.
The manager of the company declared that if the men had appealed to the law, the company would have decided to let the law settle the dispute.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 29 January 1912, Page 7
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196LABOR MATTERS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 29 January 1912, Page 7
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