LABOUR TROUBLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10400, 13 July 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

THE FRENCH DOCKERS. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.-—Oopryight. Paris, July 12. Dockers at Dunkirk assaulssd the police and barricaded the streets. Dragoons dispersed the rioters. Shipping is paralysed. Received July 13, 10 a.m. Paris, July 12. There Sa a grave Bituafeiosi at Dunkirk, and the dockers, seamen, ooalheavers, carmen and. lightermen are idle. The Paris Journal states that the lack o£ properly trained crews for vessels sailing to Algiers is a serious danger. .The officers are doing most of the work, and in some oases the crews are unemployed waiters, chauffeurs, music ball artists and watchmakers, THE “SCIENTIFIC” STRIKE. Received July 13, 9 a.m. Sydney, July 13. The secretary of the Labour Council m bis half-yearly report notes the general inclination of organised labour to closer unity He says the time ia opportune to meet this before a rival organisation comes to split the ranks to the detriment of workers’ interests on the other side Referring to strikes, ha says the scientific strike is the only strike that will prove successful With a well body of unionists wisely managed, ably controlled and directed they would only where siecessary hit the enemy and hit the hardest. THE NEWCASTLE COLLIERIES Newcastle, July 13 A further batch of men have given notice to discontinue -work in the various collieries. It is tolerably certain that the wheelers and surface bands in Newcastle district hare determined to cease work in preference to allowing the case to be Jcsidect by the Collieries Conciliation Committee. Probably nine collieries will ba involved. RIOT IN OTTAWA. Received July 13, 11 a.m. Ottawa, July 12. A thousand civic labourers struck for higher wages and paraded the streets, intimidating ether employees. The police interfered and dls orderly scenes resulted, followed by several arrests. WAIHI AND REEFTON TEOOLBES. * Par Press Association. Auckland, July 12. Auckland Chamber of Commerce received from Wslhi Chamber of Commerce a letter inquiring whether any proper organisation had been formed in Auckland to assist the engine-drivers at Waihi to maintain the position taken up in connection with the strike. It urged that Ibe men are bearing the burden of the light on their employers’ behalf and unless financial assistance from outside was forthcoming they might abandon their positions.. A reply has been sent that Auckland Chamber baa no desire to favour either side in the dispute in any way a-d no organisation has been formed to deal with the question of relief. The Chamber believed It was not desirable to interfere between the parties concerned. Reefton, July 12, With a view to a settlement of the dispute at Reefton and Wafnta, the Hon. W. P. Massey, aa Minister of Labour, has proposed that the questions in dispute should be referred to an independent arbitrator, whose decision would be accepted by both parties Mr Massey has suggested that if the employers and the men ate willing to submit the dispute to arbitrstion, work should be resumed at once, and, after a decision has been given, the adopted conditions should be brought Into opsration at once. The proposal was communicated to the Reefton Citizens’ Committee by Sir Arthur Guinness, member for the district, and the following reply was received by- the Minister this afternoon from Mr Phillips, acting chairman of the Committee : “Reefton Citizens Committee desire to thank yon for your suggestion re the mining deadlock conveyed through Sit Arthur Guinease, which is much appreciated, and we will immediately endeavour to carry it Into effect.” Auckland. July 18. Replying to Greymouth Chamber of Commerce suggesting that Government pass legislation to'prevect strikes and lock-outs, the Auckland Chamber replied that the matter was too big to be dealt with. In yesterday’s telegram it '.was stated fiat the Waihi Chamber wrote re assistance to the enginedrivers, It sbonid bave read the Thames Chamber of Commerce.