THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Mataura Ensign, 26 January 1914, Page 5

THE WORLD OF LABOR.

! SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS. CRESSWELL, M.P., RELEASED. BT ELECTRIC TELEGEAPII - - COPYRIGHT. PBR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received January 26, 9.55 a.m. JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 25. The Supreme Court has granted a rule nisi, returnable on January 28, for the release of Mr Cresswell 4 M.P. (who was sentenced to a month's imprisonment), on the ground! that the magis- | trate wrongly claimed to administer ' martial law when there was no riot. ' lit connection with disturbances in Witwatersrandi the magistrate acquit- ' ted the executive of tho Amalgamated Society <jf Engineers on a charge of unlawful assembly on the ground l that the term "enclosed space" did not apply to the rooms. THE COAL PORTERS' STRIKE. Received January 26, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 25. Several firms are following the Cornwall Company's example by conceding thel coal porters' demand for an extra penny per ton.

The union officials are refusing permits for coal for tho London County Council's feeding centres and the Alexandra Trust, which serves the yory poor. The Belgrave Hospital for Children has been obliged to close down the parents' department, and other hospitals announce that they are without coal.

The' students at Midlesex Hospital, wearing their football moved 100 tons of coal by working in shifts of five hours throughout the night. The strikers at Summ erst own dragged the coal from, the carts in the streets, and hundreds of boys afterwards picked it up and took it to their homes. COALMINERS RESUME. Received January 26, 9.55 a.m. SIDNEY, Jan. 26. The miners' strike at Beaufort on account of the mine owners' refusal to employ unionists only has been declared off. It lasted for 19 weeks.