LABOUR UNREST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 27 September 1913, Page 5

LABOUR UNREST

FURTEER DISTURBANCES *T DUBLIN TWO POLICEMEN SERIOUSLY INJURED. (Pbess Association. —Copyright.) (R«c. Sept. 27, a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 26.. A disturbance at Dublin was followed by the arrest of a'disorderly striker.. A crowd attacked the police and. two constables were seriously "injured and taken to a hospital. STARVING FAMILIES. PITIABLE SCENES RECOUNTED. (Rec. Sept. 27, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 26. The loading of the steamer Hare at Manchester with 340 tons of food' to relieve the starving families of Dublin strikers creates a record in trade union annals. Some 130 volunteers, working day and night, packed 15,000 boxes of groceries, and 30,000 101b packages of potatoes, while the dockers on strike loaded the vessel as an expression of sympathy. The goods -will be distributed at Dublin on Saturdav. Nearly 100,000 men, women, and children are suffering from cold' and; 'hunger, and many pitiable stories are . recounted in the slums. Many families" sacrificed their poor household furnishings to provide bread. In one tenement starving children. we~e found praying for food before the Virgin's shrine. The Board of Trade has appointed Sir George Askwith, and Messrs Rateliffe, Ellis, and Clynes, Commoners, to inquire into the disputes. The inquiry opens on Monday. . . . EMPLOYERS' iDEFENCE FUND. LONDON, Sept. 26. The consensus of city opinion is that the £50,000,000 scheme is inopportune, and calculated to multiply the existing friction. The Hon. W. Pember Reeves, interviewed, said the real remedy for strikes was to educate considerable bodies of employers and men into giving a trial in certain trades to the Australian and New 'Zealand method) of compulsory arbitration. - The Manchester Ship Canal dockers are resuming work at the old rates conditional -upon an inquiry being held in o the conditions compared with those at other places, and favourable considers tion of" their betterment. ARRESTS CAUSE A STRIKE, SYDNEY; sept, 26. Six members of a gang_ of wharf labourers who were discharging the steamer Berwick Law were arrested on a charge of cargo pilfering. The balance of the wharf labourers employed on the steamer displayed their belief in the honesty of their mates by immediate;-* ceasing work, "and discharging was suspended. fSec. 9 a.m.V SYDNEY. This Day. The wharf labourers on the Berwick Law resumed after the agents had communicated with the Industrial Court and the Minister of Justice.