INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 30, 20 September 1911, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

FURTHER. STRIKES. IRISH RAILWAY LINES PARALYSED. TROOPS CALLED OUT. *By. 151001.1-10 Telegraph.—Copyright.) Press Association.) London, September 19. A thousand holders-on struck on the Clyde, .defying the union’s executive, thereby idling a thousand rivatters. Practically all grades of the Great Southern and • Western lines of Ireland have struck. The goods traffic is in a chaotic state. The trouble is not acute on the Great Northern or Midland lines. Various regiments have been ordered to Dublin. The shore staff at the London and North-Western Company, engaged on the Dublin quays, have struck. Enormous quantities of perishable goods are imperilled. A meeting of non-unionist railwaymen'at Wednes resolved to form a society of free workers. The speakers protested against the tyranny of trade unions.

(Received 20, 9.30 a.m.) London, September 19. A strike arose at the Great Southern terminus through two men refusing to handle timber consigned by a merchant whoso employees were striking. The newspapers, including the Westminster Gazette, point out the possibility of allowing railway men to discriminate as to the goods they should carry. The Executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Men have arrived at Dublin and are considering the position. At a mass meeting of railway men, it was resolved not to further submit, to the degrading conditions, and the Amalgamated Executive was requested to call out British fellow-workers. Riaixner. strike leader, states that the disoute will be strictly confined to the question of handling the goods of firms employing non-unionists.

FEDERATING RAILWAY WORKERS. London, September 19. Mr Fox, secretary of the Railway Drivers’ and Firemen’s Association, has formulated a scheme for the federation of railway workers’ unions. If accepted non-unionists will be notified that they must join within a prescribed time. ' ' UNIONS AND ARBITRATION. London, September 19. Lord Claude Hamilton continued that the failure of conciliation was due to the determination of the Railway men’s Society to make it a failure. In any arbitration system there should be a High Court judge. A person of lower standing would not be acceptable to the railway companies. He advocated a heavy fine nr imprisonmeu for award breakers. Any scheme the commission might devise would not r ’ f Th6y itcrc not created for tßc purpose of being satisfied, and he saw no reason for satisfying disturbers of public order.

SPAIN. CROWDS COMMITTING EXCESSES Madrid, September 19. Crowds are parading Valencia and committing excesses. There have been frequent conflicts with the' troops, and shots exchanged. (Received 23, 3.5 a.:n.) Madrid, September 19. The Civil Guard at Saragossa charged the mob. I irin;; on bath rides followed, one person being hilled and fivo wounded. The strike is quieter elsewhere. (Received 20, 9.30 a.m.) Madrid, September 19. The King has signed .a decree suspending constitutional guarantees throughout Spain. The rioters at Valensia control the town, and have stopped traffic and work at the dockyards and factories. Rioters at Cullera invaded the Mayor’s residence; they murdered the Judge and severely injured the Judge’s clerk and another official. LITHGOW STRIKES. AGITATORS SENTENCED. STRIKERS FINED. Sydney, September 19. Dixon, secretary of the Lithgow Ironworkers’ Union, has boon sentenced to two months’ hard labour on a change of aiding persons taking part in the strike. Judge Heydon, in the Industrial Court, besides awarding Dixon imprisonment, imposed fines ranging from a guinea to two guineas, with 10s 6d costs, with the alternative of seven to fourteen days’ imprisonment, on a large number of Lithgow strikers.