100,000 STRIKERS.

Mataura Ensign, 22 July 1914, Page 5

100,000 STRIKERS.

CONFLICTS IN RUSSIA.

MOST CRITICAL SITUATION

BY ELECTRIC TJiUiGP.AI'H COPYRIGHT. VEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION Received July 22. 9 a .rn ST. PETICRSBUR.'J, July n There are 100,000 strikers in the cmital. " ' Many conflicts have occurred with the polite, 11 of whom were wounded by stones. The police used revolvers. 'Rioters in the Vibcrg quarter overturned tramcars, and'there wa.s much revolver-firing and stone-throwing. Cossacks with tko blank volleys dispersed the rioters. Tho tramwaymon at Moscow have struck and the services are suspended. I Other strikes lnivp occurred at RiVa I SaratofF and elsewhere. The situation is generally the most critical experienced "or years. j

CAUSE OF, THE STRIKE.

ST. PETKRSKURC;, July 21

One hundred' and forty thousand men of various trades have struck, owirio- to the authorities suppressing demonstrations of sympathy with the liaku strikers. Collisions occurred between- the police and the strikers .at the Pntilofl' works ai"l elsewhere.

There have hecn similar demonstrations at Moscow and clsenhero, and it is V'iiat !, jwHk i .! strike is imminent. -' ' l ~~>

LOSSES BY OOAL STRIKE

LONDOX, .T„ : l v 21. A Blue Hook shows that during the coal' strike of 11)12 trade union funds were depleted, by nearly .{"oO.OiH). Tile strike <-osl the miners over £I, 000. 000. Trades union membershin n t tb> end of 1913 iv-as over and the fluids totalled .£o.'.;00,000.

SHIPYARD STRIKE,SETTLED

MRLl!()l;rxk j„| v o, Tiie Stale shipyard strilie has been settled, and work lias been resumed on tine conditions existing pan- to the stoppage.

THE MAITLAMB MINERS,

Received Julv 22, 8.1,7 a pi . SYDNEY, Jnlv'22. 11l rainier-; mil with the afternoon Fin it trouble at the Mnitland mine* Itf) miners pleaded guilty to strikm,.. After the announcement bv couimol that there wn.s. hone of ihe trouble "being settled: and pleas IV,- ovienuaiion for the men's action in agitating for the abolition, of the afternoon -[lift the president- of the Industrial Court declared thai, it was due to ilie matter that it should receive careful consideration and -lie reserved liis judgment.