INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

West Coast Times, 14 June 1912, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

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NATIONAL STRIKE UKPOPBUB

SIC NUMBER STILL OUT.

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LONDON, Juno 13

There arc 1000 strikers at Southampton and 6000 at Swansea. About £9OO at the Bristol dockyards ceased. At Manchester 10,000 are ffaected. The Tcosidc deckers decided not to strike. The leaders of tho Leith dockers and seamen and firemen condemned a national strike.

The Chronicle does not anticipate a national strike owing to 1... etie response.

LABOUR’S MAD PROPOSAL. LONDON, Juno 12. At a meeting of tho Westham Council, the Mayor refused Mr, Will Thorne (Labour M.P.) leave to move the following resolution: “ArJ the employers have refused a settlement, tho Council instruct that roads communicating with decks be pulled up.” FINED FOR INTIMIDATION. LONDON, Juno 12. J Leggatt, Secretary of tho London Cannon's Union, was fined 10s or a month’s imprisonment for interfering with non-nionists. Ho chose to go to gaol.

There were no tallcw rales owing to the strike.

STRIKE FUNDS DEPLETED. LONDON, Juno 12. An Appeal to trade unionists issued by Mo-:srs Gosling and Tillett, declares that all spare funds are depleted. The British Seafarers’ Union has joined force, STRIKERS PREPARED TO END STRIKE. LONDON, Juno 13, The Strike Committee, in a manifesto, declares they are prepared to end the dispute in honourable terms, but the employers have forced on a situation with its imnamoable hardships. The Shipping Federation declares that a national strike is remote and hare- asserted that the Southampton strike is of a local character. Bristol is the only port where tho national strike has taken effect.

The Manchester branch of tho Seamen and Firemen’s Union has decided to strike.

TRAMWAY MEN RESTIVE. TROUBLE IN CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, June 13. There is a possibility of trouble in the local tramway service over what is known as “tho spare list.”

Under tho existing rules, it is possible for *, man to come on duty at 8 a.m., and finish at 11.15 though he has made only six half hours Actual time on duty.

Feeling has been running high for sometime past.

A meeting of the men last night resolved that the Board bo asked to prepare a roster providing a minimum of eight hours work or equivalent pay. Failing a 'satisfactory roster ;K iig put into operation, traffic will be svs" ponded at 2 p.m., on June 2-ttli, while a mass meeting discusses the situation. fined for striking. ALCKLAND, Juno 13. A further sequel to the strike bn the Paparda was the appearance in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, of fifteen watersidcrs, charged with beiim a party to the strike.

In several instances the informations were dismissed. Ono was fined £o, and four others wore fined £1 each