INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 32, 22 September 1911, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

■ STRIKES IN IRELAND. - ' “ DUBLIN’S DESPERATE PLIGHT. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, September 21. It is estimated that Lublin lias only two days’ food supply. There is a great scarcity of food in other centres. There has been no communication with many inland towns since Monday. The absence of organised disorder is noticeable. In some isolated cases cnere lias been intimidation. The signal wires were cut at Tralee; and "jiiiats'at Wdrford jam bed with'scones. ■ Heaps of produce and live fowls are perishing on platforms. Mails are interrupted, and live cattle and produce industries are paralysed. An injunction is being sought against the South-Eastern Railway Company as common carriers for refusing to accept goods. The various companies have decided to ignore the railway executive’s resolution. An official of the Board of Trade is visiting Dublin, seeking to promote a settlement of the strike. The men’s executive have deferred action, altiiougn they warned employers that the men are ready for the signal, failing a settlement. NEWSPAPER OPINIONS n■ . 1 (Received 22, 9.40 a.m.) London, September 21. Several Nationalist newspapers denounce the strike, and protest that Ireland is being made a vile body for experiment by English Socialists. “The Times” regrets the absence of Mr. Birrell and Lord Aberdeen during such crisis. Foodstuffs are rotting because the Government has not suineient pluck to send a protecting convoy. . , LEED’S COLLIERS. POLICE CHARGE WITH BATONS. London, September 21. There is much disorder in Leeds as the outcome of the strike of 800 colliers. A coal train was held up, and the manager’s house stoned. The police, with baton charges, dispersed the rioters. A number of the police were injured. . < AUSTRALIA. STRIKE IN~MELBOURNE. Melbourne, September 21. A strike has occurred in the Sunshine Harvester Works, because an employee was discharged for refusing to work with non-unionists. After the works were closed three non-uni-onists were chased to a railway station and roughly handled.