LABOUR TROUBLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1451, 1 November 1911, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED. RAMSAY MCDONALD WARNS TEE PUBLIC. {Press Association,—By Telegrapk,— Copyright). London, Yesterday. Bellamy at Glasgow, has declared that the railway men's agitation is just beginning. It would be no 24 hours' job next time. Ho was going to fight for direct collective bargaining. The railway men at Leeds,' Chester, Northampton, Burton-on-Trent, Cardiff, and Swansea, are repudiating the cornmission's findings. The railway men's meeting at Swansea demanded the resignation of Williams (general secretary) as. a member of the Industrial Council. Thomas, organising • secretary of the Western District meeting at Crewe, denied that the men's representatives were pledged to accept the findings. His advice to the managers would be. to discuss the report with the men's representative eliminate the bad, and adopt the good, and sa prevent a disastrous strike.

Mr Ramsay Macdonald, at Chester, said unless grievances were properly discussed the public must be prepared for the consequences, viz.: a paralysed' railway service. INDUSTRIAL TERRORISM. A congress of the National Free Labor Association, representing 800,000 workmen, has been opened in London. It was resolved "that in view of many acts of violence during the recent strike, it is essential to repeal the Trade Disputes Act, which the trade union pickets regard as an excuse for industrial terrorism." SYDNEY STRIKES.

' A MINISTER'S MISTAKE.

Sydney, Yesterday,

The business people express great dissatisfaction at the apparent inability of Government to cope with the situation resulting in the strike. They declare that the Arbitration Act is a dead letter. Mr Carmichael is disappointed at the non-accepknce of his offer to do stevedoring in the States. He understood the parties who waited on Government were anxious to prevent loss to producers and the In this he was apparently mistaken.

The Trades (Hall Council discussed a letter from 'Mr 'Morris (secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation), requesting support in an endeavor to persuade the men to return to work. He states the agreement, which was honorably entered into, has been broken without provocation or notice. The discussion was adjourned,

The Melbourne wharf laborers con demn the action of the strikers,

The Sydney Clerks' Union filed an application to the Wages Board. Thew claim £3 per week of 39 hours. The Mt. Lye]] strike is still on. The company demands that the men shall return unconditionally. If they do so, they will grant a conference. The men decline to return until the White question is disposed of satisfactorily. FURNITURE TRADE DISPUTE By TeUarajih—Trm Awcktinn.

Wa'tganni, Yestd'dav

Mr Halley, Conciliation Commissioner, sat yesterday to hear the furniture trade dispute. Practically all the matters in dispute were settled, except the hours, employers objecting to the reduction of hours owing to scarcity of competent labor, and also asked for an increase in apprentices from one to three men in plaoe one and two. A similar dispute will be heard at Palmerston to-morrow.