INDUSTRIAL DISLOCATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19320, 6 May 1926, Page 9

INDUSTRIAL DISLOCATION.

EXTENT OF THE TROUBLE,. SOME UNIONISTS AT WORK,. SEAMEN TAKING A BALLOT.. CONDITIONS IN THE PROVINCES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 5.S p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Reuter.-Sun. LONDON, May 4. News from the provinces shows that the strike is being observed in all tho industries affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and embraced in its order. Work is proceeding in other industries, however, including the Clyde and Sunderland shipyards, the Northampton boot factories and the Leicester hosiery factories. A numbor of potteries have stopped work owing to lack of coal. In Belfast business is proceeding as usual. Ten thousand chemical workers at Brunner Monds, Cheshire, refused to obey the strike order. The Stepney Council, which is controlled by Labour, ordered all its employees to strike and only to permit the use of electricity at night. This resulted in London Hospital not being supplied by day with electricity for operations and X-ray examinations, but the Government is supplying the current. Whoreever possible all electric power stations are being worked. The president of tho British Sailors and Firomon's Union, Mr. Havelock Wilson, announces that his union is taking a ballot on tho question whether the members shall join the strike. Tho union is part of tho Trades Union Congress but its constitution forbids any strike without a ballot of the members. The decision from the ballot is not likely to be known before the end of the week.