LABOUR TROUBLES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7852, 14 July 1911, Page 6

LABOUR TROUBLES

THE MARITIME STRIKE ASSAULTS ON CHINAMEN. By Tele.raph—Press Association — Copyright. (Received July 13, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 13. Tho Sunderland dockers again struck and secured a farthing an hour advance upon the terms agreed upon last week, making a total rise of throes farthings an hour. Tho dockers’ strike at Leith hru been settled. Assaults on Chinamen at Cardiff are frequent. PARIS MASONS’ STRIKE ENGINEERED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. (Received July 13, 10.30 p.m.) PARIS, July 13. Out of sixty thousand so-called masons who are on strike forty thousand are navvies. Tho movement has been engineered by tho Labour Confederation with tho view of scouring tho reinstatement ot tho dismissed railway men, the release of imprisoned anti-militarists, amendments to the workmen’s pension law, and other Socialist demands. VIOLENCE OF THE STRIKERS. A FATAL AFFRAY. Tho strikers have assumed, a defiant attitude, and there have been many attacks on tho police and blacklegs. A number of strikers roughly handled a bricklayer, who fatally stabbed one of his assailants. ’ NEWCASTLE MINE IDLE THROUGH A STRIKE OF BOYS. SYDNEY, July 13. The Newcastle and Wallsend mine is idle, owing to a strike of wheelers, who demanded payment for small coal. Previously only round coal was paid for. Eight hundred men are affected. The miners and tho men wheelers urged the boys to reconsider their decision, but they remained firm in their demands.