LABOUR TROUBLES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4203, 11 April 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

THE CRISIS AT HOME. AIR HARTSHORN’S PREDICTION. RESENTED BY MINERS. PRESENT CHAOS~BAD ENOUGH. Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) London, This Day. The postal servants’ conference at Bristol, by 98 votes to 47, resolved that it was improper for the postal workers to strike, State employment entailing special responsibilities. A mass meeting of miners passed a resolution expressing grave concern at Air V. Hartshorn’s prediction of the renewal of the struggle in Aiay or June. They appealed to Air Hartshorn to extricate them from the present chaos before indulging in prophesies. A meeting of miners at Barnsley demanded that Alessrs Hall and J. Wadsworth, labour Al’s.P., should resign their leadership. Five thousand miners at Bolton, Westhoughton, have refused to resume until the minimum wage is fixed Strikers, armed with pieces of timber, attempted to prevent the miners working at Golborne. The police dispersed them after sharp baton charges. IDLE SEAMEN RESUME. ANIMATED SCENES. (Received this day at 11.50 a.m.) London, This Day. There have been animated scenes at Shields, where 3000 seamen are joining 200 steamers which were rendered idle by the strike. POSITION IN AUSTRALIA. THE NEWCASTLE DISPUTE. MEN CHANGING FRONT. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) Sydney, This Day.

A considerable section of coal miners is changing front in regard to the abolition of the afternoon shift, fearing that as a result many of them would be thrown out of employment.