INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 58, 4 March 1912, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

COAL FOR SHEFFIELD. (Received 4, 10.15 a.m.) London, March 3. The Great Central Railway Company yielded to the Sheffield niinlmn’cc tnrers’ appeal, and delivered coal to them.- j - : ■ ENGLISH COAL STRIKE."' , ORDER BEING MAINTAINED: (Received. 4, 10.35 a.m.) Loudon, March, 3, Owing to the strike the stqanicr Orosites arranged to shin a thousand tons of coal at Plymouth. The coal porters demanded double pay, and the concession was granted.' A feature of the strike in Smith Wales and elsewhere is the miners’ determination to maintain order. A holiday spirit prevails. There are twenty-three thousand industrial workers idle at Swansea. Yesterday the Newcastle branch of the Railway Servants’ Society asked the Society to decline to handle trains conveying troops during the strike. The duration of the strike is estimated at from a week to a foil night. Mr. Williams, member for Swansea, said he expected the strike to be nnitually settled on Thursday. Mr. Harvey, member for Derbv, ■speaking at Clowne, said lie would always fight against compulsory arbitration. which had absolutely failed in Australia. FAR-REACHING EFFECTS;

(Received 4, 10.35 a.m.) Christiania, March 3. r l wo thousand industrial workers at Sarpsborg have been rendered idle through the British coal strike... SHIP-BUILDERS GO OUT. (Received 4, 40.35 a.m.), Berlin, March 3. S'x thousand shipbuilders at the Schiclian yards at Danzig and Elbing have struck.