INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 62, 27 October 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

TROUBLES IN ENGLAND. (Received 27, 8.5 a..m.) London, October 26. Two thousand oil-mill workers have struck at Hull, the masters demanding unionists and non-unionists to work together, precedent to considering a demand for increased wages. The railway companies, in compliance with pledges, arc prepared to give effect to the Commission’s recommendations, but state that it is impossible to carry them out without the co-operation of the men, whom they thought were similarly pledged.

SYDNEY WHARF STRIKE. Sydney, October 26. The strikers are restless owing to the deep-sea men working while they are idle. They hold that the deepsea men should cease work, and complain that they are not giving practical support. This will possibly lead to a spit in labour’s ranks and the formation of a separate union for deepsea workers. The companies would welcome,such an arrangement. The clerks and seamen continue to handle perishables,' including a Tasmanian, cargo of six hundred bags of potatoes. Up to the present the carters have raised no objection’ to handling such goods. A deputation of merchants waited on Mr Carmichael and suggested prosecuting the strikers. The Minister replied that the men were working under a Federal agreement, and therefore it was largly a Federal matter. Nevertheless the Government was doing its utmost, and he hoped to soon have something favourable to report. The'union officials state they d.o not consider likely the deep sea men will demand an increase if the inter-State demands are conceded. Th question has never been mooted at any meeting. Melbourne, October 26. The compulsory conference met and discussed the men’s refusal to accept the executive’s advice. The conference dissolved, neither side having a proposal to overcome the difficulty. In order to coniine the area of the dispute as much as possible, another conference will bo summoned between representatives of, the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the Steamship Owners’ Federation in other ports. EFFECT IN NEW ZEALAND. . (Per Press Association.) Wellington, October 26. The strike of the wharf labourers at Sydney is seriously affecting New Zealand merchants, as is seen in the fact that no cargo of any description is to be shipped by the Moan a, which is to sail from Wellington at 5 p.m. to-morrow for Sydney. r Jhc direct steamer is at present at Lyttelton, but no cargo for Australia, has been loaded at any of the southern ports either. Apart from passengers and whatever bunker coal she may carry the Moana will be an empty ship, a unique happening for the weekly Syd-ney-Wellington service.

CANADIAN HUSTLE.

NEW TOWN ESTABLISHED. SPRANG TIP LIKE A MUSHROOM. (Received 27, 8.5 a.in.) Ottawa, October 26. A now town called tlic “Coronation” has lieen established under remarkable circumstances. The Cana-dian-Pacific Railway cut up a strip of prairie and laid out a town site. A crowd of settlers arrived by the first passenger train. and % a large number of houses.and shops were immediately erected. A newspaper was also issued.