INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
London, August 5. Mr Rollit’s award in the dockers’ dispute is expected to-morrow. Railway workers connected with the Port authority have decided to join the dockers. Cairo, August 5. Five hundred strikers have resumed work. ' ! (Received 7, 8.5 a.m.) New York, August 6. One hundred strike-breakers were injured during the Des Moines riots, arising out of the tramway men’s strike. The strike-breakers took refuge., ph ,a, stationary train, where tho unionists stoned and beat them'. (Received 7, 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, August 7. The conference in connection with the Lithgow ironworks trouble proved futile. (Received 7, 8.55 a.m‘.) London, August 6. A conference of the Scottish Miners’ Federation adopted a policy of five days’ working a week, and also demanded that employers pay full compensation until injured workmen are fit for light work, when they should find employment for them.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 141, 7 August 1911, Page 5
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