INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 18, 6 September 1911, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

CONCILIATION AND ARBITRA- - TION. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. London, September 5. Most of the witnesses before the Royal Commission favoured special boards for each railway, with a national board as a Court of Appeal. The Commission enquired whether the tribunal would bo empowered to arrive at a binding decision. * The spokesman of the Great Eastern and South-Eastern employees said the latter were against giving an independent chairman on a national board a casting vote in order to secure a definite result. Mr. Ellis remarked that without an independent chairman, the dilferences must lead to a deadlock. The South-Eastern men replied that there must lie conciliation or war. The companies must know that unless they conciliate there would be war. Two witnesses suggested a fortnight’s notice of a strike in the event of tiie failure of the conciliation machinery. STRIKE AT BELFAST. London, September 5. Six hundred docker.- at Belfast 1 have struck,'demanding au apology from , a solicitor whose remarks at an inquest on n labourer killed at the quay are interpreted, as reflecting on their conduct. Ships are unable to unload. Timberyard labourers have joined the dockers. A STRIKE THREATENED. London, September 5. Mr. Onions, secretary of the South Wales Miners’ Association, in a speech at Blackwood, declared that there would bo a general strike soon on the question of a minimum Wage for miners. TRADES UNION CONGRESS. (Received 6, 1 p.m.) ' London, September 5, The president of the Trades Union Congress declared ;that a valuable method of dealing with the administration of the insurance proposals would be by a proposed federation of trades. Referring to the Osborne judgment, he said the Government was still confronted with the selfish spirit of ,the minority, which burked its duty and greedily took every advantage which self-denial had secured. The majority of the Government had been remiss; in . its duty in sending troops without Waiting thq application of the civil authorities, instead of sharply laying down tho law- to the railway magnates. THE LITHGOW STRIKE. EIGHT ARRESTS. INCLUDING LEADERS.' Sydney, September 5. Eight more arrests have been made in connection with Tuesday’s disturbance at Lithgow. Those arrested at Lithgow include Scully, president of the Western Miners’ Union, and Dixon, secretary of the Iron Workers’ Association, who are charged with rioting. THE NEWCASTLE MINERS. Sydney, September 6. ... The position at Newcastle is becoming’’more- acute, •'and. there is general unrest amongst the miners. The New Lambton mine men have given a fortnight’s notice to strike.