INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 17, 5 September 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

MORE BRITISH STRIKES THREATENED. DISCONTENT ON ALL SIDES. By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright. United Press Association. London, September 4. Mr. Hill, secretary of the Boilermakers’ Society, addressing a demonstration at Newcastle in connection with the ’Trade Union Congress, referred to the national shipyard agreement expiring in March, and "declared that unless it was drastically amended he would advise members not to approve of it for a further term. The Sheffield railwaymen resolved in favour of a strike unless two guards whom the Midland Company reduced in rank with a loss of 8s per week were reinstated. The North-Eastern Railwaymen held a great meeting at Darlington and initiated a movement to cease working with non-unionists with tho view to compelling all to join the anion. Mr. Williams, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, remarked that when tho men approached the directors for improved conditions, they were taunted by tho supposed contentment of non-un-ionists ; yet tho latter were eager to share the benefits secured by organised effort. Mr. Hudson,4 M.P., declared that now was tho time to inform employers that non-unionists must not share tho concessions to tell tho men, “You must enter the union.” The Durham Miners’ Conference demanded a minimum wage for hewers of seven shillings a day, and other classes of labour proportionately; also, if necessary, tp iiplcl a, ballot on the question of a national strike. ■ Tho Port of London authorities’ dock police threaten to strike unless they are granted the sa.me wages as dockers and ten hours, a May A ' I Samuel Ballanco, a young policeman, who was brutally kicked during the Liverpool riots, ’died in the hospital.

MINERS AND OWNERS TO CONFER. London, September 4. Advices from Cardiff state that the Coal Mining Association meets; the Minors’ Federation of Britain to discuss a minimum wage for working in abnormal places. x (.Received 5, 11.10 a.m.) London, September 4. Sixty railway workers gave evidence before tho Railway Commission. One declared that the conciliation scheme, as an instrument for collective bargaining, was useless, because a company dealt with individuals, and if one rnyi’s wages wore increased this amount was taken off elsewhere.

The civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers are forming a citizens’ service corps to safeguard food supplies and maintain communica.tion and distribution during strikes. . r . At the Trade Union pongress the president said the railway' directors had been taught,, a and were probably wiser men for the trouble, it was supreme, folly, for any body of to decline to ,re'cbgnise powerful tr;\(le unions. ’ , . (Received 5, 12f15 p.m.) London,' September 4. The strike at Sheffield has been averted, the guards’ wages having bemm-ostored. f, ..NJb ■X--AUST.II Alii A. MINERS~IDLE. Sydney, September 5. Twelve hundred minors are idle at Newcastle'-by v the stoppage of the Wallseud, Hetton, Limington, and Shortlancl pits, owing to claims for extra rates and other causes. ■ ThokSfiofylit wheelors G lhive also given notice demanding an increase. GENERAL STRIKE FEARED. (Received 5, 8.55 a.in.) Bi O' Sydney, 'September 5. The Northern Colliery, owners have created consternation among miners by declaring that they will have no more conciliation in future. Miners must refer their grievances to the Wages Boards. There are many rumours that the present troubles will develop into a general strike. (Received 5, 9.50 a.m.) Sydney, September 5. Several Lithgow rioters were fined £5 and were not allowed time to pay. The Broken Hill Amalgamated Miners’ Association has carried a resolution expressing disgust at the Ministry sanctioning the transference of paid assassins to Lithgow for the purpose of bludgeoning workers into submission in the cause of the capitalists, and calling upon Mr. Griffiths, Minister of Works (local member) to show why ho should hot resign. The resolution is the laughing-stock of the majority of residents.