LABOUR DISPUTES

Otago Witness, Issue 3112, 5 November 1913, Page 27

LABOUR DISPUTES

LONDON, October 27. - Seven thousand five hundred miners have struck at the Rhondda collieries because 50 of their number were suspended through being in arrears with their federation subscriptions. October 29. A strike by the engineers employed by the Royal Mail Steam Company for increased pay has begun at Southampton. TROUBLE IN COLORADO. SAN FRANCISCO, October 27. The miners’ strike trouble at Trinidad (Colorado) continues. The strikers captured a protected train, •which the mine guards occupied. The strikers, armed with high-powered rifles, attacked the train. The guards re turned the fire, but thereafter fled. Several men were wounded. NEW YORK, October 28. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Southern Colorado, and the whole of the State militia has been called out. There have been 18 pitched battles, in which 28 were killed and 41 injured. Wholesale damage to and destruction of property have marked the strike up to date. There have been frequent murders and fights between the mine guards and the strikers. October 30. Despite the presence of the State Militli, a bomb was thrown into the strikebreakers’ camp near St. Thomas mine (Colorado), and created a panic among .he miners ,who, however, were not hurt. The strikers then burned the post office in the Aguilar district and a trestle bridge

on the Colorado I’ailroad, and fired fusillades into the. mines at various points. The troops soon after instituted a system of patrol ..that is likely effectively to restore order. November 2. The street car strikers in Indianopolis, aided by a mob, attacked 200 strike breakers, and many of the latter were injured. The Governor refused the Mayor s appeal to call out the militia. The trouble started by women parading the streets with placards worded as follows:—“We walk; do you?”