LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 1682, 31 May 1919, Page 7

LABOUR.

. IN THE COMMONWEALTH. TOBACCO GIRLS STRIKE, By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. SYDNEY,; May 30. ;. The girls of the British Australasian tobacco factory Struck, demanding higher wages. The men struck in sympathy, rehdering idle 1200.. _ . ... FIGHT WITH WATERSIDERS. ' MELBOURNE, May 30., A crowd of strikers attempted to rush a vessel on which loyalists were engaged. •. They were beaten off after a fight, during which the police' used thiir batons. ' Mi- Watt states that there liave been 1647 strikes ih the Commonwealth during the past three years, resulting in the loss of 8,000,000 days work, and £4,500,000 in wages.

GREAT POLICE STRIKE EXPECTED

Received 8.45 p.m., May 29th. LONDON, May 29. The police dispute is becoming critical. It is declared in responsible quarters that a strike is practically inevitable. If it occurs it will affect th'e large provincial centres in addition tb London. A decision is probabte within a week. The authorities are taking every precaution to meet the situation. t CANADIAN STRIKE.

OTTAWA, May 29. Fifty thousand ftre idle through a general,strike, which started at Winnipeg. The strikers d&maiid recognition of collective Bargaining. AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN. TO TAKE FULL BALLOT. _ SYDNEY. Mfiy 30. The committee has . made final arrangements for a bailot of seanied throughout Australia 6n the qhestiofa: "Shall ships be manned forthwith?'' If so manned the whole dispute will Tie referred to the Arbitr&tibn Court, tri view of this the local ballot, whicli evoked a poor response, has "been stopped. MELBOURNE WHARF DISPUTPI MELBOURNE. May 30. Coal lumpers refnsed to work strainers on which loyalists were ehiplbyerl. T%e Coal Board has decided to regulate the coal supply from Wednesday iife'xt.' Onlv essential industries will be siip--1 plied.