INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 84, 4 December 1912, Page 2

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE CuAL STRIKE

(Per. Pi;eso Assobiatioh.)

tpildon, December 4. Since the coal strike, thirty thousand miners haWe left the South Wales Federation, thousand struck yesterday at Garw Valley, Glamorganshire, in order to force the men to reenter the Federation. The ruse uas successful.

THE SAIL WAY I STiIiKE,

f London, -December 3. r"'Tlfe railway companies deny Mr Walkden’s statement, < but admit that they are negotiating to secure the passage of an interim measure to carry out the Government’s pledge.' j ■ .!■ *>i! t THE TiMAHU TROUBLE. Timaru, December 3. There' has been ;a good deal of discussion of the' Waterside Strike today, but no change in the situation. The unionists declare that the two men who are the subject of the dispute were supported by ,the union in getting a rise in j February, and can see no objection tp their being .members of the union as well as the Railway Society. These two men are not “permanent” railway hands, but casuals. If they were permanents the union would not have objected to them. f JIr Stringleman, district traffic came down from Christchurch tp-day. In reply to a suggestion that the two men should be made permanents, he said that is is impossible, they being over age. The Department did not intend to interfere in the matter at present. The waterside agreement that preference be given to unionists had ifttbing to do with the ■ Department. It was only binding on the shipping people. Tli© union secretary went to Lyttelton to-day. In consequence of the strike the Union Steam Ship Company

has cancelled all advertisements of boats calling here. Auckland, December 3.

A meeting of the executive of the Federation of Labour was held in Auckland to-day, presided over by thp president, Mr P. C. Webb. The strike of the Timaru waterside workers came up for discussion. The fact that, the Timaru men had taken upon themselves the responsibility of striking without first consulting the Federation executive wais dwelt upon at some length. Eventually the executive decided to notify the Timaru strikers that they must return to work till at least the Federation executive had an opportunity of thoroughly investigating the dispute.