INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 79, 30 March 1912, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THOUGHTFUL HELP. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, March 28. Tho Now South Wales Government is distributing Australian produce to the value of £IOOO among the families of strike victims. SPANISH RAILWAY MEN. Madrid, March 28. Four thousand railway men have struck for twenty-five per cent increase of wages. TROOPS GOING FORWARD. London, March 28. Trains are in readiness at Aldershot to convey four thousand troops if required for quelling disturbances occasioned through the strike. An additional six thousand troops are being prepared. , The Labour leaders adjure the strikers ,fo refrain from disorder where men are resuming, otherwise public sympathy will be .alienated. THAMES GOLD MINERS. Thames, March 29. Representatives of the mining companies and the miners are meeting in friendly conference to arrive at an agreement on the question of wages. The present minimum is 8s 6d, and the men are asking 10s, in view of the .high cost of living. The mon also ask for the abolition of Hie Saturday hft!ernoon..shift, . : • > ?14 YAM ■ MO GISBORNE BUTCHERS. , Gisborne, March 29. The strijyq ,continues. A police escort was obtained for a load of meat being brought into town, rumours having been circulated that .there was f|,,pipvem(?nt afqcjt. to capture it. ThSpj strikers assembled in front of the shop where the meat was "being unloaded and expressed' free opinions regarding tin? men engaged at urprk,, .Police assistance, was called for and they persuaded the critics to desist, but later on there was another 7 ' (T demonstration. • • ,