TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2923, 23 March 1910, Page 29

TRADES AND LABOUR.

LONDCfN, March 18. The. Northumberland Miners' Association continue® to give relief pay to 11,000 strikers. .., ' j The Board of Trade is endeavouring to find a "basis' of settlement for the dispute. March-20. The South Wales Coal Conciliation Board has terminated >.ts negotiations. The concessions offered by both sides were rejected, and a deadlock has arisen. PARIS, March 21. Two hundred strikers in a paper factory at Clichy, infuriated by the refusal of 50 comrades, chiefly women and girls, to cease work, lay in wait until dark and fired a volley of revolver shots at them. The non-strikers took refuge in a cafe, which the strikers bombarded with revolvers and stones until the police arrived. . ;.'.".. 'Several women and two policemen were wounded. The assailants extinguished the street lamps and thereby escaped. The women, who were chiefly responsible for the attack, treated the nonstrikers with savage violence. A series of .similar murderous attacks have been made upon non-strikers'in various provincial dist-iets during the week. . BERLIN, March 15. Eighty per cent, of the workmen in Krupp's Germani-a Yard at Kiel struck for a. half-holiday as a protest against the Prussian Franchise Bill. Many of the workers of other yards joined them, and 10,000 men are out. There was a violent collision with the police, and the latter, hard pressed, took refuge in shops, the windows of which were smashed. Ten demonstrators and several policewere injured. ''.<•" MarcTr 17. Eighty per cent, of the men employed in the Kiel Navy Yards having struck for a half-holiday as a protest against the Prussian Franchise Bill, and demonstrated against the police, the authorities at the Germania Yardis retaliated by a lockout of 5000 men, which is to last till Monday. NEW YORK, March 15. The Federal Government. ha,s consented to mediate in the American firemen's strike. The Philadelphia strikers have issued a proclamation calling on all working men in the country to withdraw their deposits from the banks. The strikers have two millions sterling banked in Philadelphia alone. The American railway firemen's demand for the control of promotions has been rejected. SYDNEY, March 15. Five Newcastle mines 'are still idle, pending a settlement of minor troubles. The Seamen's Union during, the coal and coastal strikes paid away £11,500 to their members who were; but of work, in addition tb i £66 paid, to other unions. ;••• All the northern collieries with the exception of the Hetton mine are at work. At the Hetton'"' colliery work will be resumed to-morrow. The fleet of vessels awaiting coal is now being moved "under the cranes. MELBOURNE. March 17. Though the strik"e is over, it is unlikely

that full supplies of coal will be available for some weeks. During the strike the inter-State companies had over 50 steamers laid up, ami 30 of these are still idle. Docking then and getting them into running order wU( mean a further large outlay. The total losses to the inter-State con* panics and the Union Company over th* strike is estimated at £200,000.