INDUSTRLAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 138, 3 August 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRLAL UNREST.

DOCKERS’ STRIKE. (Received 3, 8.5 a.m.) London, August 2. Shipowners are ready to submit the dockers’ dispute to arbitration. 1 ' THE DOCKERS’ STRIKE. (Received 3, 10.0 a.m.) London, August 2. There are 14,000 strikers in London. Tho strike is due to tho Port of London Authorities employees receiving a rise to scvcnpenco per hour, and tho shipping companies’ employees, who have long received sevenpence, are now claiming an additional penny. Tho union officials did not desire the strike, but tho rank and hie are repudiating the officials’ promise to submit to arbitration. THE LITHGOW STRIKE. (Received 3, 10.15 a.m.) Sydney, August 3. The Lithgow strike continues, pending tho meeting of tho Arbitration Board.

SUGAR STRIKE. Sydney, August 3. The cane cutters’ strike at Maoloan has ended, the company having granted the men’s demands. Brisbane, August 3. Nino men, including a strike organiser, have been arrested in connection with the disturbance at Childers. Three have been arrested as the outcome of the strikers’ demonstration at Cairns. The waterside workers arc enforcing the decision net to handle non-union sugar. WHARF LABOURERS’ DISPUTE. Melbourne, August 3. The new agreement between the Wharf Labourers’ Union and the Steam Ship Owners’ Federation is now operating. It reduces the working hours from forty-eight to forty-sown weekly, with extra pay for meal tunes and overtime after midday on Saturdays. CARTERS’ STRIKE. Hobart, August 3. The carters’ strike continued. The men to-day consider the concessions offered by the employers. NEW ZEALAND SEAMEN AND SHIPOWNERS. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 2. The dispute between the Merchant Service Guild and shipowners, in which improved conditions of employment, payment for overtime, a new scale of wages, an eight hours’ day system, and preference to unionists aro asked for, comes before the Conciliation Council on August It. Eighteen shipping owners or companies and about oOJ err.;Jovcco are concerned.