LABOUR TROUBLES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13353, 18 April 1911, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

CANAL NAVVIES STRIKE.

Several Casualties.

Prom Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. PARIS, April 15. Five hundred navvies are on ’strike at. the canal works at Marseilles. In a conflict with the police twelve police and many strikers were injured.

THE FRENCH RAILWAY STRIKE.

PARIS, April 15. In the Chamber of Deputies a large majority *voted confidence in the Government’s declaration that it would adopt measures to influence the railway companies to reinstate the men who went out on strike some months ago. M. Monis, Premier, declared that the Government did not possess a weapon for compulsion except public opinion. If its efforts proved unavailing it would ask the Chamber to supply the power. THREAT BY TAXI-CAB DRIVERS. LONDON, April 17. A meeting of taxi-cab drivers have protested that the proprietors are seeking by the increase of fares to pass on the petrol tax. The drivers threaten to strike if this 'Sction is taken before the Government investigation has been completed. They also demand daily wages m lieu of a percentage on their takings.