INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Otago Witness, Issue 3149, 22 July 1914, Page 27

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

STRIKE AT MERSEY DOCK. LONDON, July 13. Fifteen hundred men have struck at Mersey Dock. If the strike continues many liners will be imprisoned within the dock gates. STRIKE PLOTS AT THE HAGUE. BRUSSELS, July 14. A tramway strike in the vicinity of the Peace Palace at The Hague led to serious disturbances. The crowd pulled up stones from the street and bombarded the mounted police and detectives. The police used revolvers and swords, and 15 persons were injured. A BIG LOCKOUT. BERLIN, July 20. One hundred and seventy textile factories have locked out 18,000 workers as the result of 50 striking for a general increase in the minimum wage. The employers are willing to raise wages where they are below the local scale. A PITCHED BATTLE. NEW'YORK, July 18. Several hundred miners who are on strike attacked the mine guards at the Prairie Creek mines, Fort Smith. A pitched battle ensued, during which fire and dynamite destroyed the workings of three mines, and several were injured on both sides by the rifle fusillades. The rioters held the mines for several hours, doing immense damage. NEW SOUTH WALES COLLIERIES. SYDNEY, July 20. In connection with the sti'ike over the afternoon shift difficulty, a settlement has been effected. At the Bellbird Colliery 200 miners have returned to work. The agreement provides for the abolition of the afternoon shift on a specified date, under a five years’ agreement. The miners are jubilant. Other collieries are expected to enter into a similar arrangement, and thus satisfactorily end the trouble. RURAL WORKERS’ LOG. SYDNEY, July 15. The annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association is now sitting. There are 400 delegates in attendance. The retiring president said that, in the event of a struggle with the Workers’ Union, the farmers themselves would see their products aboard the Home ships. - SYDNEY SLAUGHTERMEN. SYDNEY, July 17. The beef slaughtermen have notified the master butchers that after Monday next they intend killing only 10 bullocks per clay per man—i.e , at the rate of one and a-quarter bullocks per hour. The award, while fixing the rate of wages, does not state the quantity of work to be performed. Grave trouble is anticipated, for it is unlikely that the masters will agree to this limitation of output. NEWSPAPER EMPLOYEES’ AWARDS. SYDNEY, July 20. ■ Mr Justice Scholes dismissed an application by the Sydney Daily Newspapers Employers’ Association for the constitution of

an industrial board for their employees, giving the applicants the right to bring various awards which they contend press unduly upon them before the court for revision. NEW SOUTH WALES ENGINEERS. SYDNEY, July 20. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers has notified non-unionists that unless they join their union within a week there will be a stoppage of work in every shop where non-unionists are employed.