INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 49, 22 February 1912, Page 8

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

SLAUGHTERMEN ON STRIKE, ■ (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.* (Received 21, 10.15 a.m.) Sydney, February 21. Thirty-eight slaughtermen at Glebe Island struck, objecting to the system of grading men. ARBITRATION DECIDED ON. (Received 21, 11.40 a.m.) London, February 20. Sir G. Askwith has persuaded the Glasgow masters and dockers to arbitrate as to the interpretation of the recent agreement. At the English Coal Conciliation Board the masters submitted conditions on which they were prepared to accept the minimum wage. The millers rejected the conditions and the conference 'broke up. Merchants, householders, railways and Government depots have been storing coal heavily during the past month. Many householders are using their bathrooms for this purpose. Consumers at Liverpool are panic-stricken and are inundating merchants with orders. The railways are cutting down supplies for waiting rooms and offices to one-third. Straker, secretary of the Northumberland Miners’ Union, states that so confident are they in the justice of the men’s case that they are willing to allow Sir G. Askwith to be umpire in the dispute. He also stated that the men were not itching to strike. TO .AVERT A* STRIKE. London, February 20. The Premier has invited the owners and miners’ representatives to meet him and some colleagues at the Foreign Office separately on Thursday to consider means of averting a strike.