INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 September 1911, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

the era of strikes foreshadowed. By , Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. London, September 6. Professor S. J. Chapman foreshadowed an era of strikes in England and serious- industrial disturbances for three or four years, and suggested strengthening the Board of Trade’s powers, making intervention usual and rendering strikes and lockouts impossible until the officials had hoard the evidence of both sides and endeavoured to effect a settlement. TRADE UNION CONGRESS. ; ’ -London, September 6. Tli© Trade Union Congress instruct- | ed.d Parliamentary committee to urge Parliament to nationalise the Rail-1 ways. ' . .. , v |v, U 1 Mr Shaw, representative of the Northern Weavers’ Union, was cheered on reminding the Congress of its previous resolution in favour of the Ministry, Labour adding its presence

for the first time at the Home Office. A TWO-SIDED OBLIGATION. Loudon, September 5. The dock stiike at Bristol has been settled by non-unionists joining the union. Mr Raeburn, vice-chairman of the Clyde Shipping Trust, in a speech at Glasgow, said if the power to strike were adinitto 1 the power to abstain from striking must be regarded as sacred. Employees had their remedy. Sympathetic strikes could close all the works and bring the ships to their mooringsWHAT STRIKES COST.

(Received 7, 9.45 a.m.) London, September 6. •tit*is estimated that the Rhondda Valley strike has depleted the South Wales Federation funds by £IOO,OOO, while donations from English and Scottish societies totalling £75,000 were also dissipated. The printers' strike in London cost the society £-10,000 in six months. ? The general labour unrest in Eux-ope ;'ijj attributed to the universal increase in food prices consequent on drought; AUSTRALIA. ';1." f **:■ [ , ‘ , ii LITHGOW QUIET. * Sydney, September 6. ■ ’Lithgow is quiet and both parties are determined. Mr McGowen asked both sides to meet him to-morrow to discuss the situation, with a .view to arranging a settlement. . ..