INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 21, 17 September 1912, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE AMALGAMATED RAILWAYMEN. London, September 16. Several branches of the amalgamated railwaymen have protested agams the Labonrites forcing three-corneied contests and threaten to withdraw her support to the Parliamentary fund. A BRADFORD DEMAND. London, September 16. Sixty-two thousand dyers, gasworkers and labourers at Bradford are demanding an advance to severance an hour. CASUAL CLERKS.

London, September 16. A meeting of London branches of the Railway Society instructed the delegates at the annual meeting to demam the expulsion of the executive which was responsible for the treatment of casual clerics. RENTS IN AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, September 16. Mr Dick Meagher, introducing a deputation representing the Labour Leagues, asking for legislation to regulate the abnormal increase of rents, said that the .benefits of industrial legislation had been expunged twice and thrice'by the extortionate increases of rent. Instances were given of increases of 50 per cent. Families were herding together to save rent. Some weie living in stables and yards. Mr McGowan promised the matter serious consideration. Ministers, ho said, hoped soon to make a definite proposal. The Government making bricks at half private cost should help the situation.