The Wages War.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 10, 28 August 1911, Page 5

The Wages War.

LEGISLATIVE REFORM URGED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Tress Association. London, August 2G. The Leeds Chamber ol commerce Ims urged me Government io repeal me Trades .Disputes Act and to revise me peaceful picketing law. LIVERPOOL LOCK-OUT UlllldKAWA. London, August 2G. The tramway strike at JLiondon lias been averted. The County Council’s coiimiutec, uy recognising the union, settles certain grievances, and manageriaily refers cue otners to a conciliation board. Tne lightermen’s strike has been settled, and tne shipowners at Liverpool nave terminated the lock-out, conditionally on all resuming; otherwise mo locK-out will oc resumed. The dockers’ union has given pledges not to support any wishing to disregard mo agreement.

Several Condon newspapers support the suggestion of a permanent volunteer league to carry on public services in the event of a great combined strike. A similar organisation in 1909 caused a general strike in Sweden to collapse.

Tne Midland Railway Company presented loyalists with a week s wages besides tneir ordinary wages. A dozen baton charges were made at Bargood and Gilfacn to-day, and several were injured. Half a dozen premises wore damaged. IRISH RAILWAY STRIKE. London, August 26. The stewards of the Irish Turf Club have decided that the circumstances of the Irish railway strike did not justify the Leopardstown Jockey Club’s executive in abandoning the first day’s meeting, and withdrew the club’s license for the remainder of 19.11. It also lined the clerk of the course £IOO for not taking adequate stops to consult the local stewards, and ordered the club to defray all the expenses of owners, trainers, and jockeys in connection with the races hxed for the 19th inst. EXTRAVAGANT LANGUAGE BY BEN TILLETT. Loudon, August 27. A meeting of the Socialist Democratic party in Trafalgar Square denounced using the troops during the strike. Mr. Ben Tillott declared that if the Tory Government had so acted Mr. Lloyd-George would have wept tears of blood at the massacre of his countrymen, and Mr. Asquith would have declared that the .Constitution was being prostituted by the Tories and capitalists. Dir. wmiild have called up his father’s ghost to wallop tne Tones.

Prominent Jews see nothing antiSemitic in the Welsh outburst. It is, they consider, purely hooliganism foi the purpose of theft. There is a widespread demand in commercial circles for tho repeal of the section of the Trades Disputes Act dealing with peaceful picketing, and the section relieving trades unions from responsibility for their acts.

TO-DAY’S MESSAGES. (Received 23, 9 a.m.) London, August 27. Sir W. Hall-Jones, in an interview, recommended the adoption of New Zealand’s system of compulsory arbitration. Mr. Will Crooks’ Strike Bill compels employers and workers to give thirty days’ notice of any change affecting the working conditions and wages, and fixes penalties fer lockouts, strikes, or inciting thereto, prior to investigation of the dispute by a Board, the latter consisting of three members appointed by tho Board of Trade on application by parties to the dispute.

A LOCK-OUT. Berlin, August 27. The metal masters at Dresden and Chemnitz have locked out sixty per cent of their workmen.