LABOR UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1919, Page 5

LABOR UNREST.

j BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. NATION MAY GO DOWN IN DISASTER. Received August 1, 8.55 p.m. London, July 28. Mr. Home, interviewed, stated that the country's wealth was depicted. Tho industrial outlook was grave. People were indulging in every form of selfishness. Manufacturers were profiteering, and workers were striking and paralysing • trade. Unless there was ,a great awakening the nation would go down in disaster. Production had reached a dangerously low level. Work is the sole corrective.—Aus. and N,Z. Cable Assoc. A HEALTHY SIGN. GETTING RID OP EXTREMISTS. Received August 2, 12.30 a.m. London, July 28. Mr. Stanton, MP., is heading a movement among the Welsh miners to purge the Miners' Federation of extremists. Several meetings of miners passed resolutions in favor of seceding from the local trades and labor councils, which are dominated by Socialist extremists.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. LONDON POLICE. DECIDE ON IMMEDIATE STRIKE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 1, 10.5 p.m. London, July 31. A mass meeting of the London police decided on an immediate strike to secure recognition of the union and enforce tho withdrawal of the Police Bill. The majority of tho London police have not joined the strike. Sir Frederick Macready dismisses 228 immediately. EBBW VALE FURNACES. TO BE CLOSED DOWN. . Received August 1, 8.55 p.m. London, July 23. The directors of the Ebbw Valo Company have decided to close the blast furnaces of the company. It employs 20,000 employees. The managing director states that fortunately the action of these men had caused an order to be issued by the unions concerned not to allow a handful of men to stop work in future. The cluing of the furnaces will render idle 3000 for probably six months,—Atis. and N.Z Cable Assoc. | THE YORKSHIRE DISPUTE. i Received August 1 10.5 p.m. London, July 28. The Yorkshire owners and miners confer at Leeds on Wednesday, with a view to a settlement—United Service.