LABOUR STRIFE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 5

LABOUR STRIFE

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS TROOPS SENT TO SOUTH WALES. By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrishS | LONDON, July 27. A battalion of the Gloucester Regiment has been dispatched from Bristol in connection with tho South Males labour troubles. END OF GLASGOW SEAMEN’S AND DOCKERS’ STRIKE. Tho seamen and dockers’ strike at Glasgow has ended. ASSISTANCE FOR QUEENSLAND STRIKERS. (Received July 28, 9.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 28. Tiro secretary of tho Labour Council has forwarded £I3OO to tho Queensland sugar strikers as a first instalment of help from New South Wales. MOUNT KEMBLA STRIKERS TO RESUME WORK. (Received July 29, 0.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 28. Tho strikers at tho Mount Kembla electrolytic works have agreed to resume work pending the reference of the dispute to the Arbitration Board. GOOD PROSPECT OF SETTLING SUGAR STRIKE. (Received July 29, 0.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 28. The Acting Federal Premier, Mr W. N. Hughes, - states that tho reports from tho North Queensland districts are more hopeful. Tho secretary of the Waterside Workers’ Federation has received a telegram that the prospects of a settlement in tho Bundaberg district are excellent. Tho majority of the cane-growers and millers are favourable to reasonable terms, but tho influence of the Sugar Company is too great. A telegram received from another centre was of much tho camo tenor.