LABOUR MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 89, 11 April 1903, Page 3

LABOUR MATTERS.

PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION. jJMSTEBBAM, April 8. j The strike of Dutch bakers id a failure. The railway service is ceirly norma), many of the strikers returning to work. A thousand troops have been sent to Rotterdam owinj to the dockers' met; aces. ABTILBERY HAVOC AMONG STRIKE RIOTERS. ALL LABOUR ON STRIKE IN ROMS. SOLDIERS ACT AS BAKBRS AND BUTCHERS. SENTINEL FIRES ON RIILWAY MEN. St. Petersburg, April 9. A force of military, using artillery to qu'll a fac'ory strikers' riot at Njni Novgorod, killed 30 and woundrd 100. Rohe, April 9. Every form of labour in" Rome, except Government employers, has struck in order to support a protracted printers strike against fr»e labour. Soldiers are acting as bikers and bu'cben 9 ,2o,ooo troops being quartered in tne city.

Amstkbdam, April 9. Ninety per c«nt, of tho Dutch railway men are offering to resume work. There are many signs of a division amongst the strikers in response to the demond for a general strike, which is very incomplete. A sentinel at Rotterdam fired on feur railway men for refusing to leave the line, killing one. Received 11.0.42 a.m. Rome, April 10. Thousands of visito; s have quitt d Rome. Conflicts hiva occurred between the =s'rikers and the police, owi> g to at--tmpts to and to stop trams wh'ch Gendarmes now esxrt.. Five bundled arrests Lave been mad'. Shops and churches have been cl sed. The sti ike is gradually diminishing, Rfcei«d 11,0.12 a.m. Amsterdam, M rch 10. Tweuty-five thousand workers are idle in Holland, including the majority of masons, and one third of the gas workers. The Government railway authorities have rtj- cttd the employees' request to negotiate oo the basis of a reinstatement of these suspended and dismissed.