ENGINEERING TROUBLE LESSENING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 24 May 1917, Page 8

ENGINEERING TROUBLE LESSENING.

LOCAL STRIKES BECOMING MEANINGLESS DEMONSTRATIONS.

SANE LEADERS INSIST ON AVOIDANCE OF MOB LAW,'

BY CABLE--"PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received May 24, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. Local strikes at Sheffield, Liverpool and elsewhere have degenerated into meaningless demonstrations against authority. In a number of cases when the shop stewards ordered resumption of work, another body of strikers established pickets and attempted to persuade the men not to resume, saying that those resuming would be playing the capitalistic game. Mr Clynes, speaking at the Dockyards' Union Conference, said that trade unionism must avoid the institution of mob law, and a body of shop stewards could not be allowed to have more weight than the men's properly established authority of trade unions.