LABOR.

Waikato Times, Issue 12184, 20 September 1911, Page 5

LABOR.

2000 SHIPBUILDERS IDLE.

IRISH RAILWAYS DISORGANISED

PERISHABLE GOODS IMPERILLED

TRADES UNION TRYANNY.

(Per Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Received Sept. 19, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19. One thousand holder-men struck at Clyde. defying the executives and idling 1000 rivetters. Practically all grades on the Great Southern and Western lines in Ireland have struck. The goods traffic is chaotic. The trouble is not acute , on the Great Northern and Midland lines. Various regiments have been ordered to Dublin. The shore staff of the London and North Western Company, engaged c*a the Dublin quays have struck and enormous quantities »f perishable goods are imperilled. A meeting of non-unionist railwaymen on Wednesday resolved to form a society of free workers. The speakers protested against the tyranny of the trade unions.

THE LITHGOW STRIKERS

SECRETARY IMPRISONED

■.Received Sept. 19, S.lO p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 19

Mr Dixon, Secretary of the Lithgow ironworkers has been sentenced to two months' hard labor on a charge of aiding persons taking part in a strike.

RANK AND FILE FINED

IMPRISONMENT THE ALTERNATIVE.

(Received Sept. 19, 10.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 19

Judge Heydon, in the Industrial Court, besides awarding Dixon imprisonment, imposed 'fines ranging from £1 Is to £2 2s with 10s 6d costs, the alternative to be seven to fourteen days' imprisonment, on large numbers of strikers.

A FEDERATION SCHEME

COMPULSORY MEMBERSHIP

(Received Sept. 19, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 19. Mr Fox, the Secretary of the Railway Drivers' and Firemen's Association has formulated a scheme for the federation of Railway Workers' Unions. If accepted the non-Unionists will be notified that they must join within a prescribed time.

BUILDERS' LABORERS CEASE WORK.

(Received Sept. 20, 1.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 19. The trouble over the 'builders' lab-* orers. who demand higher pay, has reached a crisis and all employed on large jobs have ceased work.

HANDLING TIMBER

MEN'S REFUSAL

POWER OF DISCRIMINATION

MORE SYMPATHISERS

FURTHER STRIKE

(Received Sept. 20, 9.30 a. .) LONDON, Sept. 19. A strike has arisen at the Gnat Southern terminus, through two m-3D refusing to handle timber coi ig> «d by a merchant whose employee. v ,re striking. Newspapers, including the Wksti. .n----ister Gazette, point out the impossibility oi allowing the railwaymen t (: discriminate as to what goods shall be carried. The Executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railwaymen have arrived in Dublin, and are considering the position. A mass meeting of railwaymen at Dublin resolved not to further submit to the degrading conditions, and demanded that the Amalgamated Executive call out the British fellowworkers. Mr Rimmer, strike leader, states that the dispute is strictly confined tu the question of handling the goods of firms employing non-Unionists.

THE SPANISH TROUBLE

MOB FIRED ON

{ Received Sept. 20, 1.10 a.m.) MADRID, Sei-t. I^>. The Civil Guard at Sara/gossa charged the mob. Firing on both sides followed, during which one person wa.s killed and five wounded. The strike is ouieter elsewhere.

3TEELWORKERS OUT

(Received Sept. 20, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19

Nine hundred steelworkers at Dolvlis have struck for an increase in wage 6 and recognition of their union.

WALLSEND WHEELERS

Received Sept. 20, 11.5 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Sept. 20. The Wallsend wheelers still decline to resume work.