INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 61, 7 March 1912, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

By Electric Telegraph .--Copyright.) (united Press Association.) London, March 6. Many Australian steamers are delayed by the coal strike and others are filling the space with coal which is not obtainable at Las Palmas, where supplies are being reserved for homeward bound steamers. Five million men, women and children are directly affected by the strike; Suburban trains are immensely overcrowded. Some lines have reduced trains 20 per cent. Mr Philip Snowden, writing to the ‘Christian Commonwealth,” says the miners scored a tremendous victory mi obtaining what the Covernmer.it already offered and it would be a thousand pities if a stiff-necked attitude alienates public sympathy.. The Board of Trade lias issued the text of the laws of the British Dominions and elsewhere relating to strikes. Many newspapers have articles on Australian methods. The “Chronicle” says in all great colonial laws fines and imprisonment arc penalties for workmen and unions. The progressive party in Britain must face this, as has been done in the domin•ong. :,;i ll!Ml