LABOR UNREST

Mataura Ensign, 23 July 1914, Page 5

LABOR UNREST

THE RUSSIAN STRIKES. STREETS SWARM WITH POLICE. BT *MCTBTO TELEGRAPH COPTBIGHT< PEE TJNITEI) J>REBB ASSOCIATION. ST. I'ETEKSIUJUG, July 22. The strikes are regarded as a recrudescence of the revolutionary movement reflecting the strike of girl workers at Baku a.gaiinst inhuman: .conditions ton pled vv.i tin police tyranny. Onei hundred! and sixty -Mrousand workers are idle in St. 'Petersburg. •MiWiy of. tihp newtpa.p'ers are not being published. j T ti,e streets are swarming with police and' Cossacks. . Tho disturbances /werei renewed! at A iborg, wl«re barricades have been erected. 'Many of the police have been injured. The police fired volleys and wounded .several'.strikers. Ihe ■movement is spreading and is assuming a pan-Rusr.ian, character. SCOTTISH MINERS' WACES. Received July 2,1, 8.30 a.m.. LONDON, July -22. The Miners' Conference at SouChiport authorised a Scottish strike if wages were reduced, and approved of calling a conference to consider a national stoppage if a. strike begins. . Subsequently t/lvo Scottish executive decided'to abandon'the four-day week proposal.

Mr Robert Sm'iK'i«, president of the Miners' Federation." of Great Britain and president of tho Scottish Miners' Federation, in, a speech at Nelson- said the Scottish miners would, refuse a. reduction in pay of a- sh'iifiiiy a day but would offer a. fotir-day week and l risk the threatened' lock-oiit. BUILDERS ANDXSTRIKE. Received July 23, 9.15 a m ' PERTH, July 23. The movement, for 'the prosecution l of tl'.ie timber meivlvanfcs f<ir closiiiK down in connection, with the la.te compulsory unionism strike has failed, the court holding that they had good cause for closing independent of any industrial dispute.

MAITLAND MINERS FINED. SYDNEY, Julv 22. Each of the 51D Maitland 'miners were fined £4, the judge stating that he was unable to go behind the award made with respect to the men's claim regarding the afternoon-shift. —_ ENGINEERS AND NON-UNIONISTS. SYDNEY, July 22. . The amalgamated! engineers' campaign against /non-unionists resulted! in 90 men employed- at- the; Colonial. Sugar Works ceasing work. . *