LOCK-OUT AND STRIKE.
ENGINEERING DISPUTE SPREADING. (The Times.) Received March 13, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, March 13. The engineers’ lock-out is proceeding quietly. The only development was at Dundee where the engineers urge the executive to bring out all the associated unions. The extremists at Glasgow, Sheffield and other principle centres are markedly active in endeavouring to enlarge the scope of the dispute, but seemingly with little likelihood of succss.
BOLSHEVIK EXHORTATIONS.
Received March 13, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, March 13. Th headquarters of the Communistic party continues to issue defiant manifestos urging the workers not to permit the repetition of the miners’ “Black Friday.’’ The English union officials state that members stand solid on the main issues but the union funds are seriously depleted owing to the enormous unemployment drain.
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
Received March 13, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, March 13. Mr. Clynes takes a gloomy view and thinks there is no prospect ot an early settlement. He urges Government intervention and the appointment of a coudt of inquiry. The amalgamated engineering unions of Belfast unanimously decided to strike in support of the engineers of Britain. Twenty-five shops and two thousand men will be affected.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18430, 14 March 1922, Page 5
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