INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3, 1 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

REVOLUTION ARY U I'll EAVAL. (By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, April 80. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Rochdale, declared that the independent Labour Party was out for a revolutionary upheaval which would change the face of society. He commended the Olympic strikers for refusing to work with blacklegs.

OPPOSING SO.CIA LISIv!. London ,April 30. Jn consequence of the Minimum Wage Bill, several Liberals, particularly in South Wales, are forming a league to resist the pressure of the Socialist influence on the Government. It is stated that funds sufficient to contest twenty-five seats at the general elections have been subscribed. It is understood that 150 Labour and Socialist candidates are included in the Labour Party's candidates. Payment of members is the chief claim. The Transport Workers' Federation has discountenanced the Liverpool sailors' and firemen's demands. Outside unions declare that the difficulty is purely local. AN APPRENTICE'S WAGES. Wellington, April 30. Reserved judgment was given in the Magistrates' Court to-day in,the ease of the Wellington Furniture Union v. Charles Goldman, upholsterer, to enforce a penalty for alleged breach of the furniture trades award. Goldman, it is alleged, paid an apprentice in his second year 10s instead of 12s as provided by the award. The case was dismissed, Dr. McArthur holding that as the apprentice had been indentured during the existence of the previous award, the present award did not affect him. THE GREEN ISLAND DISPUTE. Duncdin, April 30. In connection with the dispute at Green Island, Mr Robert Hill, mine manager, said that on further complaints being received from the men lie and Mr W. L. Christie went down the mine, and decided to place a jig on one of the headings, but when Mr James Christie, the consulting engineer (then absent) returned, he said that the scheme was impracticable, and it was abandoned. The road about wh>'':h the men were complain-i ing as luring too severe a gradient.

ad been used for three years during

Inch it had improved, and it was a eculiar thing that it was only at

the present time that the men started to complain. Tho men held a meeting this evening, and decided to do nothing further, but await developments. The following resolution was carried: "That this meeting considers that the men cannot truck and road until a jig is put there."