THE LABOUR UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 934, 29 September 1910, Page 5

THE LABOUR UNREST.

♦ •: REMARKABLE BALLOT PAPERS. ; By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, September 27. :.' In connection with ■ the .South Wales mining .trouble, balloit papers have been distributed to 160,000 miners. The papers ! restrict tke issue to financially supporting tho Cambrian men or declaring a general strike. Mr. F. M'Laren,. M.P., characterises the ballot as grossly. unfair, as virtually all opposed to' an aggressive : policy will be disfranchised; ' ' The "Daily Chronicle" considers Mr. Mlaren's,strong words justified. Narrow majorities in eleven of the larger collieries favour a levy in support of. the Cambrian miners. Sis support a .general stoppage of work. BONUS OBJECTED TO. , London, September 27. A conference of - Kent trades unions resolved that the Labour Party should insist. on tho Government 'discontinuing thp premium bonus system at the Royal dockyards and workshops. It was further resolved that the Government be asked not to place contracts with shipbuilding'firms, offering bonuses. ■ PERTH- TRAM DISPUTE. ■ '■ '. Perth, September 28. - ■ There \ia a new development in respect to tho tram trouble; The employees -are suing the company, for," a breach of the fiward in working them ten hours -daily without overtime payment. ./ /