INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14143, 15 June 1920, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE MELBOURNE STRIKE. TRADE PARALYSED. Press Association —Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Australian and JN .'A. Cable Association.) (Received Tuesday,- 10.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. It. is estimated that 12,000 workers are ide through the strike. Industry is paralysed. Seven hundred volunteers enrolled at the bureau, including professional men and engineering students at. the universities. Employees representatives con foiled with the Premier, who later met Cabinet, but made no statement, to the public. s MAIN DISPUTE POINTS AGREED UPON. (Received Tuesday, LI. IO a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. 'The gas employees met the companies in conference, and agreed on the main points at issue. The Union resents the suggestion, and scouts the possibility of Melbourne’s dispute extending to Sydney. ITALIAN “WHITE STRIKE.” QUIKT RESTORED IN TRIESTE. Press Association—Electric Telegraph-Copyright (“The Times. s ') ROME, Monday. Quiet has been, restored in Trieste., The Government is using military-en-gineers and volunteers to: run trains and load munitions. The. strike is known as the “white strike.” The railwaymen simply fold their arms and do.’not leave the stations. Passengers are compelled to disembark or depart ten miles outside the city. .