INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143674, 19 December 1911, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

LABOURERS WANT TROUBLE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 18. ‘‘The employers have thrown down the gauntlet, and it is more than likely that it will not lie very long before it is picked up,” said tho president of the General Labourers’ Union to-day regarding the men’s demands for improved conditions and higher pay. The impression among the union officials was that tho employers were determined to force a fight. If a strike did occur it would be because the men had been forced beyond the bonds of enduranceby the employers. The general opinion among the larger employers is that a strike may occur at any minute, and an industrial crisis on a scale never experienced in the Dominion before is anticipated by some.