WORK AND WAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 97, 24 December 1913, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES.

THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

Times —Sydney Sun Special Cables. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.! London, December 22. The Dublin press deplores the failure of the peace negotiations. 1 here are signs of many men returning to work, and hope has not yet been abandoned. The Catholic archdeacon suggests that priests should offer Mass for the children who were taken to England, because they are living in surroundings which are dangerous to their faith.

THE LEEDS STRIKE.

[United Press Association.]

London, December 23

The negotiations for a settlement of the Leeds strike have failed, and the strike continues. Nearly all the municipal services are being carried out by amateurs.

Several colonels and, majors in the Territorials are sweeping the streets under police protection.

STRIKE BREAKERS AT WORK.

(Received 12.T0 p.m.) London, December 23

The situation at Leeds has become more serious. The corporation is advertising for fresh staffs. Two thousand police have been imported into the city, while infantry and cavalry are readily available. The citizens league has organised an amateur staff to clean the streets, which were unswept for ten days. Sixty men, mostly professional, arrived by motor cars and worked from midnight till daylight on Tuesday under police protection. They cleaned the principal streets and emptied the dust bins.