INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14143, 14 June 1920, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

ENGINEERS’ DISPUTE. GIGANTIC LOCK-OUT THREATENED. Press Association —Klectric Telegraph-Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Monday, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. The National News states that a private meeting of employers in the. engineering trades, held at Edinburgh, decided to resist all demands for further increases in wages and close down all works, creating a gigantic lock-out, unless the latest demands are withdrawn. MELBOURNE GAS STRIKE. PROSPECT OF EXTENSION. M ELBOU LINE, Sunday. Tluv city is now facing the dismal prospect of being without gas, electric, light and trams, as the enginedrivers have, definitely decided to cease work ht midnight on Saturday. If any attempt- is made to bring coal overland to supply non-unionist workers at the gasworks the railway worker's threaten to strike. WILL BE FOUGHT TO THE END. (Received Monday, 12.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Premier, .in appealing to the public, intimated that the strike would be fought to the end. No section would be permitted to dislocate the essential services. £1,500,000 worth of cold storage meat is exposed, to destruction owing to the withdrawal of electricity, for refrigerntng purposes. WHAT WELL SYDNEY DO? SYDNEY, Sunday. The secretary ot the Engine-drivers’-Union states that, although the men have similar grievances to the Melbourne strikers, there will be no trouble in Sydney until after the departure of the Prince.