THE ENGLISH STRIKE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143587, 28 August 1911, Page 3

THE ENGLISH STRIKE.

SETTLEMENTS ARRIVED AT. SOCIALISTS AND THE ARMY. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. August 26. A tramway strike in London has been averted. The County Council’s committee recognises the union, settles certain grievances, and managerially refers the others to a conciliation board. The lightermen’s strike has been settled, and the shipowners at Liverpool have terminated the lockout conditionally on all workers resuming; otherwise the lockout will be resumed. The dockers’ union has given pledges not to support any wishing to disregard the agreement. Several London newspapers support the suggestion of a permanent volunteer league to carry’ On public services in the event of a great combined strike. A similar organisation in 1009 caused a general strike in Sweden to collapse. The Midland Railway Company presented loyalists with a week’s pay besides their ordinary wages. A dozen baton charges were made at Bargoed and Gilfach to-day, and several were injured. Half a dozen premises were damaged. A meeting of the Socialist Democratic party in Trafalgar Square denounced using the troops during the strike.

Mr. Ben Tillott declared that if the Tory Government had so, acted Mr. Lloyd George would have wept tears of blood at the massacre of his countrymen, and Mr. Asquith would have declared that the Constitution was being prostituted by the Tories and capitalists. Mr. Churchill would have called up his father’s ghost to wallop the Tories.

Prominent Jews see nothing antiSemitic in the Welsh outburst. It is, they consider, purely hooliganism for the purpose of theft. There is a widespread demand in commercial circles for the repeal of the section of the Trades Disputes Act dealing with peaceful picketing, and the section relieving trades unions from responsibility for their acts. The Leeds Chamber of Commerce has urged the Government to repeal tho Trades Disputes Act and to revise the peaceful picketing law.

Apropos of the wages question, the newspapers publish details of the cost of housekeeping, which show that groceries and green groceries have increased by 25 per cent, in fifteen years. SUGGESTED LEGISLATION. (Received August 28, 9 a.m.) LOADON, August 27. Sir William Hall Jones, in an interview, recommended the adoption of the New Zealand methods of compulsory arbitration. Will Crooks’ Strike Bill compels the employers and workers to give thirty days’ notice of a 'change affecting the working conditions and wages, and fixes penalties for lockouts, strikes or inciting thereto, prior to an investigation of the dispute by tho board, tho latter consisting of throe members appointed by the Board of Trade on application by the parties to the dispute.