ENGINEERS’ LOCK-OUT.

Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1922, Page 5

ENGINEERS’ LOCK-OUT.

THE TROUBLE SPREADING. UNION FUNDS DWINDLING. (Press Association—Copyright.) (Received 10.30 p.m.) London, |larch 13.—The engineers’ lock-out is proceeding quietly.' The only development was at Dundee, where the engineers urged the executive to bring out all the associated qnions. Extremists at Glasgow, Sheffield and other principal centres are markedly active, endeavouring to enlarge th? scope of the dispute, but seemingly with little likelihood of success. The London headquarters of the Communistic party continues to issue defiant manifestoes urging the woikers not to permit a repetition of the miners’ “Black Friday.” English union officials state the members stand solid on the main issues, but that union funds are seri ously depleted owing to. the enormous unemployment drain. Mr J. R. Clynes takes a gloomy view, and thinks there is no prospect of an early settlement. He urges Government intervention and the appointment of a court of inquiry.

The amalgamated engineering unions at Belfast unanimously decided to strike in support of the engineers of Britain, and 25 shops and 2000 men will be affected.—“Times.”