INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 28, 18 September 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

COST OF THE AUGUST STRIKES IN ENGLAND. London, September 16. Two million, three hundred and twenty-three thousand working days were lost in Britain during August owing to the strikes. Three hundred and seventy three thousand, six hundred and fifteen workers were involved. TV; 1-J IN TIMBER MEN. (Re ci'cd IS, 9.15 a-.m.) London, September 17. The timber men at Dublin have struck on account of the masters declining to recognise the Irish Transport Workers’ Union. Four hundred 'men on the goods department of the Great South-Western , Railway at Kingsbridge Street have struck, declining to handle timber. POSTAL EMPLOYEES. London, Septctmber 17. < A postal employees’ campaign > for the redress of grievances and .an increase of pay has been inaugurated at Glasgow, and is being widely supported. The conditions of’ service are declared to be intolerable, and resolutions have boon passed urging the, appointment of a committee of the House of Commons to hold an inquiry. ’ \ • BRITISH MINERS. London, September 17. One thousand two hundred miners have struck at Bristol demanding that the same increases should be granted as in the Somerset area. AN UNEMPLOYED PROTEST. London, September 17. The unemployed at Leicester are boycotting the labour exchanges on the ground that the men are sent after positions already filled, or < sev- 1 oral are sent to one job, which is given to the man accepting the lowest wage. PORTUGAL. , Itiil jay ■ i (Received 18, 9.15 a.m.) /■ Madrid, September 17. The Labour Federation at Sargossa has struck in sympathy with the Bilbao men. The strikes at Oviedo and Malaga have ended. IN AUSTRALIA. WHEAT HANDLERS:- RESUME--o COAL LUMPERS SATISFIED. Sydney;* 1 September 17. The wheat handlers’ strike is settled. The threatened strike of coal lumpers is averted. ‘The men demanded an increase of payment for night work. As the result of lengthy negotiations the shipping companies conceded an increase of from Is 9d to 2s 3d an hour.

A STATE MINISTER’S VIEWS

(Received 18, 8.55 a.m.) Sydney, September 18. Mr Griffiths, in refusing the request of the Broken Hill Minors’ Association to resign his portfolio and seat owing to the action of the Government in sending police to protect the Lithgow non-unionists, says no body of men sworn to administer the law can permit individuals to deliberate vilato that law. If this sort of thing was prevented by the police the persons attacked would have to defendhomselves, and would ultimately arrive at the American system of the maintenance by wealthy corporations of Pinkertons armed with Winchesters —a state of things no Labour Government would tolerate in Australia.

MINERS’ TROUBLE. / ' Sydney, September 18. The wheelers’ notices at the new. Lambton seapits have expired, and* the men did not start to-day, adding largely to the thousand miners already idle. The trouble threatens other collicijies in the near future. Perth, September 18. The colliers on strike at.the Colliburn colliery have accepted the offer of the Scottish Colliers’ Company to take over and work the property as a co-operative concern. A company has been formed of 250 shares at £IOO each, and starts operations to-day.