LABOUR DISPUTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 225, 23 August 1932, Page 7

LABOUR DISPUTES

DEMANDS OF WEAVERS. BITTER STRUGGLE PREDICTED. BUS DRIVERS MAY ALSO STRIKE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 23, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 22. Although the Lancashire weavers are opposed to a lightning strike, a bitter struggle seems inevitable. A quarter of a million weavers will be withdrawn on the 27th inst. It is suggested that Lord Derby act as mediator in the dispute with tho employers.

A London omnibus strike is also a strong possibility. Twenty-five thousand drivers and conductors at a ballot overwhelmingly rejected wage cuts. They are confident that if they strike they will be joined by 43,000 tramwaynion, who are dissatisfied with the recent cuts.

TEXTILE WORKERS IN MEL-

BOURNE

STRIKE PROPOSALS ENDORSED

Received August 23, 9.50 a.m. MELBOURNE, Aug. 23. A stormy meeting of 1000 metropolitan textile workers endorsed the proposals for a strike at all tho mills in Melbourne to-morrow. The workers refused to accept the offer of tho employers of a settlement of tho dispute on'tlie basis of 74 instead of the 15 per cent, reduction in wages allowed for by the cost of living adjustment. About 9000 workers will bo affected.

Some days ago tho Control Board Federation, representing the ten principal unions of the cotton trade, decided to call a striko throughout tho manufacturing section unless tho employers make a better offer by August 27. It was stated that if it was carried out, tho strike would involve 200,000 operatives immediately, and might eventually stop 500,000.