STRIKES.
: BEN TILLETT AND THE UNION. NATIONAL STOPPAGE SUGGESTED. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received Sept. 18, 12.50 -a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. Bon Tillett, at Southampton, referring to the Osborne Judgment said he was prepared to recommend a complete national stoppage unless freedom cf combinations and management of their own funds was granted to the trades unions.. TYRANNY of unions. REASON FOR RECOGNITION. (Received Sept. 17, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. I<J. Sir Charles Ownos in the course of his evidence added that his staff did not want conciliation or interference by Unions. The latter wanted recognition in order to compel non-Unionists to join. He would do his utmost to prevent his staff becoming victims to such tyranny.
* THE RECENT STRIKE. BIG LOSS OF TIME. (Received Sept. 17, s.r> p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 16. Two million thtee hundred and twenty three thousand working days were lost in i Britain during' August owing to the strikes, and 373,615 workers were involved. IN EVENT OF WAR. GENERAL REVOLUTIONARY STRIKE. FRENCH WORKERS' RESOLUTION (Received Sept. 18, 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 17. Delegates from the amalgamated unions of the Seine district are considering whether bhie internatw>nal capitalists desired to create a diversion from the demands of the workers, by utilising the Moroccan incident. IThe conference decided on a general revolutionary strike in the event ol war.
MORE UNREST. DUBLIN TIMBER MEN OUT. POSTAL EMPLOYEES' CAMPAIGN. ROYAL COMMISSION ASKED. (Received Sept. 18, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. The timber men at Dublin have struck on account of the masters declining to recognise the Irish Transport Workers' Union. Four hundred men in the goods department of the Great South Western Railway, at King's Bridge-street, have struck, declining to handle timber. A postal employees' campaign for a redress of their grievances and an increase of pay has been inaugurated at Glasgow and is b&ng widely supported. The conditions of .service are declared intolerable, and a resolution was passed urging the appointment of a committee of the House, of Commons to hold nn inquiry.
THE CHEAPEST MAN. LABOR BUREAU BOYCOTTED, WAIL OF THE UNEMPLOED. (Received Sept. 18, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. Unemployed ait Leicester are boyBatting the laibor exchanges, on the ground thai men are sent to one job, which is given to the man accepting the lowest wage. LITHGOW TROUBLE. ENGINE DERAILED. SYDNEY, Sept. lef An engine and a truck were derailed at the, Lithgow ironworks siding. It is stated that the fish plates were removed and a bolt placed between the points. Thirty cadets at Lflthgow refuse I to Grill on the 'ground that some of tbe other cadets were working with the non-unionists.
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Waikato Times, Issue 12182, 18 September 1911, Page 5
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