LABOUR WAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9811, 12 June 1914, Page 5

LABOUR WAR.

STRIKE RIOTS IN ITALY. (Br Buomo Toioiira-Ooßimif.) (FBI PUN Amocutiomi ROME, June 11. Striken burned the railway station at Imola Fabriano. A mob of strikers to-day at Florence fired upon the troops with revolvers. The soldiers replied, killing one man and wounding others. Troops in Rome charged she strikers' barricades and shots were exchanged. Three of the strikers were wounded and also eight soldiers. The strikers resume work on Friday. There have been 860 arrests. They dynamited the railway bridge at Riorenguolo, but a train stopped in time to avert a disaster. Rioters at Naples stoned the artillerymen at the railway depot The artillerymen 6red, killing a rioter. LONDON BUILDERS' TROUBLE LONDON, June 11. London Building Industries' Federation declares that it was not consulted in regard to the provisional areement and sees in the National Executive a move to attempt to override the London Federation. Therefore it has ordered a ballot on the settlement proposals.

ARBITRATION FOR FRANCE. (TrJBB AND BTDNET Su* 8«VK».) ...... PARIS, June 11. A technical commission is being appointed to elaborate a scheme for dealing with arbitration in industrial disputes. AUSTRALIAN DISPUTES. . . SYDNEY. June 11. The position in regard to the afternoon shift dispute at the Maitland coalfield is unchanged. ~ T x . „ PERTH, June 11. Mr Justice Burnside refused the Labour Federation's request for a compulsorv conference in connection with the building trades' strike unless the men returned to work.