WANTS CLEARING UP.
PROSPEROUS IRISH BUSINESS DESTROYED MUNICIPAL UN CLEANNESS " NOT PROVEN" STRIKE THREATENED ON THE CLYDE [United Trkss Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyiuoht.) LONDON, Jan. 26. Professor Haldane advises trade unions to ask the Government to appoint a Royal Commission, consisting of two judges and one expert layman, to determine the position of the Union law as laid down recently by, the courts, and advise as to the real principals which govern picketing. A fire destroyed Todd s haberdashery warehouse in Ar.nngh. The damage amounts to £100,000. Mr Harrington was re elected by 43 to IB as Lord Mayor of Dublin. An enquiry into the municipal election at Shewsbury showed that out of 661 voting two thirds had been bribed. There is a strong feeling in favour of retrying Gardiner for the murder Rose Harsent at the earliest possible date, or dropping the prosecution. Regret v <xpiesedth«t the English law does not provide as an alternative for juries the f coltish " noc proven " verdict. A-'great strike on the Clyde is threatened owing to notice to reduce ship woikers' wages by five per cent and engineers' by a shilling per week.
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Southland Times, Issue 18056, 28 January 1903, Page 3
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