INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16430, 25 January 1919, Page 9

INDUSTRIAL MATTERS.

4 . YORKSHIRE MINES IDLE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and K.£. Cable Association.) LONDON, January 22. Two hundred thousand Yorkshire miners arc out, and every pit is idle. Thero is great alarm in the Bradford wool industry. Tho bakers are agitating for a ■national strike for tho abolition of night work. SETTLEMENT REPORTED. LOiNDON, January 23. The coal strike has been settled, the m»al interval being conceded to each shift. (Received January 23rd, 11.35 p.m.) LONDON, January 22. Reports from various parts of the country indicato that serious industrial unrest is prevailing, and will require prompt and tactful handling by the Government. Although tho miners' extravagant ultimatum was net accompanied by a time limit, "the situation continues to cause anxiety. Meanwhile a strike, involving over 150,000 Yorkshire miners, appears imminent in consequence of the Yorkshire Miners' Association's decision to call out all men and boys on Thursday, owing to the employer? locking out 40,000 men and boys for taking twenty minutes' meal time. The Association's resolution adds: "Wo will withdraw the whole of iihe colliery workers unless a settlement is reached by noon on Saturday." ENGINEERS' STRIKE. LONDON, January 21. The Engineering _ and Shipbuilding Employers' Federation this week discussed the industrial situation arising out of the epidemic of unauthorised strikes. • Mr Smith, secretary of the Employees' Federation, censures the malcontents who refuse to give the fortyseven hours' week a fair trial as agreed upon by tho vast majority of the employees. He points out that indiscriminate demands for forty-four hours or less, and even thirty hours, involve a most serjous economic question, as tho men demand the same pay as for fiftyfour hours. He urges an early return of the men to work, to enable consideration of the grievances. A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. (Received Januaiy 25th, 12.25 a.m.) LONDON, January 22. The engineers' strike has taken ft more hopeful turn in London. • Several employers have already granted concessions. The Minister of Labour urges a give and take attitude. (Received January 25th, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 22. It is reported that most of the matters in dispute in the London engineering trades have now been settled. The majority of the men are expected to leturn to work 10-day. CLYDE WORKERS' DEMANDS. « (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) January 25th, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 22.. The Clyde workers demands for a 30hour week and £1 per day threaten to develop into a general strike of workers in Scotland on Monday, although the movement has not the definite sanction, of many of the trade unions involved. RAILWAYMETPS THREAT. (Received January 25th, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 22. A railwaymen's meeting, representing 160 branches and 180,000 members, threatened drastic action unless an eight-hours' day was granted and other grievances were removed. Some thousand shipyard repairing hands on the North-East coast have ceased work. POLICE DEMANDS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 25th, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 22. The metropolitan and provincial police have forwarded a statement of their demands to the Government.