INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 53, 27 February 1912, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

NO CARGO FROM SYDNEY. (Received 26, 10.5 a.m.) Sydney, February 26. The wharf labourers are still bolding up the Brisbane steamers. Those stilling on Saturday took no cargo. They have also declined to discharge vessels arriving from the northern port. INDICATIONS~OF THE END. (Received 26, 10.5 a.m.) Brisbane, February 26. Mr. Coyne denies the rumour that the strike committee decided to order all strikers excepting tramway employees to resume on Tuesday. He declared that the miners and wharf labourers would remain out as long as they were required to. Notwithstanding this declaration, there is an indication of the strike ending. Work is proceeding on the wharves steadily by free labour. A steamer left on Saturday for the Gulf country, where supplies are running short, no steamer having visited the country for five weeks. U.S. PRESIDENT BLAMED. (Received 26, 8.5 a.m.) New York, February 25. El Paso, Texas, reports that United States and Mexican secret operatives also Texan rangers, have issued a manifesto blaming the President of the United States for causing all the troubles in Mexico, and a Latin-Ameri-can manifesto will he circulated throughout Northern Mexico with the object of stirring up feeling against the American Government. THE RIGHTS OF THE, NATION. (Received 26, 8.5 a.m.) London, February 25. Mr Asquith, replying to Mr Field, Nationalist member for Dublin, sajd ho’was linahle io regard, favourably the suggestion that coalfields ho nationalised., , . The executive of the Lfinoashiro and Cheshire Miners’ Union has instructed the delegates to Tuesday’s conference to refuse to suspend notices. Mr Keir Hardie says that only concession of the men’s demands could elfrect a settlement. The miners wouo not going to Mr Lloyd- George like tho railwaymen did. Sending troops implied that the miners were hooligans and blackguards. Tee Lord Mayor of London presided at a conference of Mayors of the United, Kingdom, ball Targe towns being represented. The meeting passed a resolution that the claims of the community ou(weighed any conceivable difference dividing the negotiators. Several speakers urged that the rights of the nation as a third party should be hoard. THE THREATENED LOCK-OUT. (Received 26, 9.0 a.m.) London, February 25. An increasing number of large firms have notified their intention to suspend in the event of a strike, including the Chatham railway works at Ashford, the North-Western works at Crowe, the Glasgow steel works employing ten thousand hands and the Welsh tinplate manufacturers employing thirty thousand. THE EFFECT IN FRANCE. (Received 26, 9.0 a.m.) Paris, February 25.Tlie strike threatens to paralyse many industries which largely roly on English coal.