INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 31, 21 September 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

RAILWAY STRIKE OVER AGAIN. POSITION SERIOUS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, September 20. Irish companies are firmly resisting tho strikers’ demands, and decline an invitation to meet the Railway Servants’ Association executive. The latter thereupon resolved that unless tho companies ceased penalising the men for refusing to handle blackleg goods, they would call out all the Irish railwaymen. A number of men have been imported from Manchester to fill the i\iagsbridge strikers’ places. They yielded to the persuasion of pickets, with tho exception of nine, whom the police escorted. Large drafts of troops are ready for emergencies. Tho Royal Engineers are engaged in driving passenger trains. Goods traffic is suspended. The South-Eastern is tho only company which refused to accept blackleg goods. Its service is untouched. , Three Wexford iron founders locked out their employees, and another linn decided that as some of their employees had joined the Transport Workers’ Union, henceforth they uould employ non-unionists. The price of provisions is rising. A BISHOP’S OPINION. London, September 20. Bishop Gore, in a farewell letter on departing from Birmingham, said he believed tho industrial discontent was justified. Christians were not justified in tolerating tlic conditions of life and labour'under which the masses were living, and had no right to say that these conditions wore irremediable. RECOGNITION OF UNION DESIRED. London, September 20. The railwaymen at Waterford demand the recognition of their union as a basis of settlement. They decline to handle non-union goods. A DISPUTE SETTLED, London, September 20. Tho boilermakers’ dispute at Lincoln has been settled on a two years’ basis with a shilling a week advance and 2) per cent, increase on piece rates. TRAMWAY MEN OUT. (Received 21, 11.20 a.m.) Now York, September 20. Seventeen hundred men employed on the Detroit steel railways are on strike for increased wages, and the town is without a car service. AUSTRALIA. HBTTON COLLIERY. Sydney, September 20. The Holton Colliery wheelers resolved to resume work on the old conditions to-morrow. RAILWAY COMMISSION. London, September 20. At the Royal Commission on Railways My. Hyde, general manager of the Great Eastern Company, declared that the men’s demands wore so extravagant that compliance therewith would sweep away his company’s dividend. He was opposed to the recognition of unions, which did not secure permanent peace. PRINTERS’ STRIKE. (Received 21, 8.5 a.m.) Rome, September 20. A strike of printers at Milan for higher wages has prevented the publication of the newspapers.