STRIKES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 7, 3 October 1907, Page 7

STRIKES.

GIRLS M THE POLICE. MILLS CLOSED. FIVE THOUSAND IDLE. By Telegraph—Association—Copyright. (Received October 2, 10.53 p.m. London, October 2. Clark's thread mills at Paisley—a busy town 'of Renfrewshire, Scotland, with largo manufactures of cotton thread—have been closed, and 5000 employees liavo been thrown idle. Dissatisfaction arose because some hundreds of mill girls struck out of sympathy with some fifty boy strikers. The girls created a disturbance, which ultimately caused the stoppage of the mills. The girls came into conflict with the police, pelting them with bobbins, and being roughly handled in return., CONCILIATION ADVOCATED. London, October 2. Lord Brassey and a number of members of Parliament aro urging the directors of the railway companies to: conciliate tho railway employees ' in : crrdor to avoid a strike. AUSTRIAN RAILtVAY WORKERS. (Received October 2, 8.57 p.m.) Vienna, October 2. Seventy thousand employees of the Austrian railways have begun a passive resistance strike in order to secure increased-wages, amounting, to £200,000 a year. MELBOURNE BAKERS. Melbourne, October 2. The latest phase in the bakers' strike is a house-to-house .'boycott, in artisan centres, of employers- who have observed the. provisions of the Factories Act. ' • The employers consider the development serious. : The railway trouble at. Home is the long-pending dispute between the railway companies and the Amalgamated Society of Bailway-'Servants, which body the owners refuse to recognise and negotiate with. The society is to take a ballot of its members to ascertain whether they arc prepared to strike, at a given time in order to .secure recognition and. redress. Even'if the ballot is carried, Mr. Bell, the secretary, says that further, peaceful 'overtures will be made before striking. 1