LABOUR AT WAR

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7870, 4 August 1911, Page 5

LABOUR AT WAR

LONDON DOCKERS’ DISPUTE

OWNERS MULLING TO ARBITRATE.

By Telegraph—Proas Association—Copyright, LuNDON, August 2.

Tho shipowners are ready to submit their dispute wiiilr the dockers to arbitration.

Fourteen thousand dockers aro on strike in London.

The strike is chtio to the Port of London Authority’s employees receiving a rise to sevenpense an hour. Tho shipping companies’ employees, who long received sevenpemee, arc now claiming an additional penny. Tho union officials did not desire a strike, hut the rank and file repudiated the officials’ promise to submit tho matter to arbitration.

Tho Rippingham Grange, with five hundred emigrants for Australia, duo to sail on Thursday, is unable to complete her loading.

PORT OF LONDON STRIKE COAX-

M3ITTEE.

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD TO-

DAY,

(Received August 3, 9.25 p.m.)

LONDON, August 3.

At a meeting of dockers Mr Ben Tillett announced that a .strike committee for the port of London was being formed, embracing every section of workers, to co-operate with the National Transport AVorkcrs’ Federation. A conference between tho emjjloyers and the men will be hold to-morrow.

- A former cable message stated that Mr Beu Tillet, speaking at Victoria Park to tho transport weerkers’ organisation, said that they had more power to stop food supplies than all tho Dreadnoughts m the ■world. They were conferring with capitalists representing’ a thousand million 7K>unds. and there must bo no hesitation. They must ask all transfer workers to support the stoppage of London’s supplies.

MEXICAN STRIKERS

OFFERING REWARDS FOR ASSASSINATION.

MEXIOO CITY, August 2.

Proclamations offering 3000 pesos (about £350) for the assassination : of Messrs Frank Jenkins, William Jenkins, and James Dunn, three English mine experts, breve been circulated in connection with bho strike at tho Eloro

mines. Bombs have been found in the mines. An appeal has been mad© to the Government to suppress lawlessness.

BRITISH COLUMBIAN MIXERS

IN FAVOtJR OF RESUMING WORK

VANCOUVER, August 2

The coal-miners at Fernie favour resuming work, aflter several months’ strike for higher wages.

Mining has been seriously hampered during the strike-

QUEENSLAND TROUBLE

SEVERAL MEN ARRESTED

BRISBANE, August 3.

Nine men, including a strike organiser, have beem arrested in connection with the disturbance at Childers. Three men have been arrested at Cairns as tho outcome of a strikers’ dear rnstration over the waterside workers enforcing the decision not to handle non-union sugar.

ATTEMPT TO GET FREE WORKERS.

FRUSTRATED BY LABOUR MEMBER.

(Received August 3, 9.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 3.

A large number of men replied to an advertisement for men to work in the Queensland sugar mills. Mr Ryland, a Labour, member of tho Queensland Assembly, attended and urged the men not to go, and tho crowd dispersed.

SEAMEN AND THE STRIKE.

UNION SECRETARY GONE TO

QUEENSLAND,

(Received August 4. 0.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 3.

The general secretary of the Federated Seamen’s Union has gone to Queensland to watch the interests of members and take charge of affairs in regard to their aspect of the sugar strike.

PROPOSED ROYAL COMMISSION,

TO INQUIRE INTO SUGAR

INDUSTRY. MELBOURNE, August 3. Mr W. M. Hughes, Acting-Federal Premier, states that he is not unfavourable to the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the sugar industry, with special reference to tho Queensland trouble.

NEW SOUTH WALES STRIKES

CANE-CUTTERS’ DEMANDS GRANTED. SYDNEY, August 3. The Lithgow strike continues, pending a meeting of tho Arbitration Board. Tho cane-cutters" strike at Maclean

has ended, tho company having granted the men’s demands.

MELBOURNE LUMPERS

NEW AGREEMENT IN FORCE,

MELBOURNE, August 3

Tho new agreement between tho Wharf Labourers’ Union and the Steamship" Owners’ federation is now in operation. It reduces the working hours from forty-eight to forty-seven weekly, with extra pay for work in meal times, and overtime after midday on Saturday.

MELBOURNE ENGINEERS

DEMAND FOR INCREASED PAY.

MELBOURNE, August 3.

The District Amalgamated Society of Engineers has presented all tho city firms and the Railway Commissionss with a demand for an increase of pay of a shilling a day. HOBART CARTERS’ STRIKE EAIPLOYERS OFFER CONCESSIONS.

HOBART. August 3. The carters’ strike continues. The men will meet to-day to consider concessions offered by the employers.

RUSSIAN DOCKERS OUT,

TWELVE THOUSAND MEN ON

STRIKE,

(Received August 3, 11.25 p.m.)

ST. PETERSBURG, August 3,

Twelve thousand dockers have struck here, rendering two-thirds of the shipping in port idle.