INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
THAMES IRON WORKERS. (By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, January 1. Riverside borough mayors and a number of Labour and Unionist-. Commoners attended the Trafalgar Square demonstration. Mr. .). W. , Mills, Commoner, upon an invalid couch, was hoisted to the plinths of the Nelson Column and protested against a northern firm controlling the Thames ironworks and men being required to abandon shorter hours which they had enjoyed for fifteen years, ; . ENGLISH RAILWAYS. London, January 1. A mass meeting of railway men at Swansea unanimously resolved that tlio executives had broken all' democratic rules by accepting the commission’s report while the ballot was in progress. It was imperative for the four secretaries of the executives to retire. NEWPORT STRIKE. London, January 1. The Newport strike, which affected four thousand dockers, has been temporarily settled. The dockers are hoping the dock companies will arrange to load the Houlders’ boats instead of using free labour.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 17, 3 January 1912, Page 7
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