INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 128, 22 July 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE CARDIFF STRIKE. CHINESE SHOPS ATTACKED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. London, July 21. Work at Cardiff is at a standstill. A hundred vessels arc idle. The Lord Mayor conferred with the shipowners, who subsequently made proposals which the men considered. Tho Lord Mayor is hopeful that these proposals will form a basis of settlement. All the Chinese laundries were attacked at night. One was burnt. Tho dockers at Barry have struck. (Received 22, 11.30 a.m.) London, July 21. Twenty laundries at Cardiff were wrecked and rioting occurred throughout tho night. The police are ,) ;wcrless owing to the Simultaneous m worn onts of the malcontents, some of the rioters firing the laundries and looting clothes while others i ebbed the tills. Five hundred Lancashire Fusiliers have arrived, and others are in icadiness. NON-UNION SUGAR. Melbourne, July 22. A meeting of the Council of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, Mr Hughes, Attorney-General, presiding, confirmed the decision of the Executive not to handle non-union sugar during the currency of the Queensland dispute. Mr Hughes afterwards declared that merely refusing to handle certain goods was not a strike.