LABOR.

Waikato Times, Issue 12185, 21 September 1911, Page 5

LABOR.

STILL UNEASY.

GENERAL STRIKE IN SPAIN.

AN OPPORTUNE TIME

(Per Press Association.—Copyright.)

Sept. 20, 12.15 p.m.) MADRID, Sept. 19. The General Labor Union has decided on a general strike in Spain. The Morocco campaign has left ooIyTO.OOO troops available for the maintenance of <>rder.

BOILER-MAKERS' STRIKE SETTLED.

• Received Sept. 21, 12. :> a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20. The boiler-makers' dispute at Lincoln has jbeen settled on a two years' basis with a shilling a week advance and 2£ per cent on piece rates.

THE. IRISH STRIKE,

RAILWAY.MEN'S DEMANDS

ROYAL COMMISSION

■Received Sept. 20, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20. The railwaymcn at Waten'ord demand recognition of their union as a basis of settlement. They decline to handle non-union goods. Before the Royal Commission Mr Hyde, general manager of the Great Eastern railway declared that the men's demands were so extravagant that compliance therewith would have swept away his company's dividend. He opposed the recognition of Unions, which would not secure permament jx>ace.

DISCONTENT JUSTIFIKD

A BISHOP'S OPINION

Received Sept. 20, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20. Bishop Gore, in a farewell sermon on departing from Birmingham, said that ha telieverl industrial discontent was justified. Christians were not justified in tolerating conditions of life and labor under which the massas were living. They had no right to say these conditions were irremediable •

IRISH RAILWAY STRIKE

ENGLISH MARKETS AFFECTED

(Received Sept. 20, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20. Only three trains on the Great Southern line in Ireland ran to-day. Letters have been greatly delayed and the mails have not been sent to England. Only one-fourth of the usual supply of butter has reached England. Prices in the Liverpool provincial markets are stifier. No further Irish supply is expected till .the strike is ended. The anialagamted executive at Dublin has invited the railway managers to co-operate with them to effect a settlement.

BUILDERS' LABORERS STRIKE

(Received Sept. 20, 11.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 20. The builders' laborers on all the hi-" city iolis have struck, demanding l.">d an hour. The Unionists -threaten to deal with anybody accepting less.