INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 38, 29 September 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE STRIKE IN IRELAND

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, September 28. Despite the absence of cargoes, the Great Western Railway is maintaining a steamboat service between Fishguard and llosslaro. The daily loss is £4-10. Efforts are being made to settle on a basis of criminating timber and allowing the railways to adjust the differences with the railway men, apart from the Transporters’ Union. The Amalgamated Railwayman suggest that they relinquish boycotting 'backlogs and companies who reinstate strikers. Three hundred and forty men employed at the Great Southern’s locomotive works at Limerick have been discharged. WHAT MAY HAPPEN. London, September 28. Mr. Koir Hardio, M.P., speaking ■it Mountain Ash, declared that, unless the rail way men’s domahds were idjustod there would be a strike parilysing every line in Britain. !If there was going to bo trouble in the •nines and railways it was advisable that both should strike i together throughout the Kingdom. Two days would suffice to secure- for the colliers eight shillings a day minimum, md for railwayman a reasonable living wage. MOUNT LYELL STRIKE (Received 29, 9.45 a.in.) Hobart, September 29. There is no improvement in the position at Mount Lyell. Fearing a lengthened struggle, many of the minors are leaving. The directors and officials of tfio mines arc conferring in Melbourne. THE LITHGOW STRIKE. (Received 29, 9.5 a.m.) Sydney, September 29. At the instance of the Minister of Works, a conference of the two parties to the LitligmV strike' will bo Held in Sydney to-day.