A LABOUR WAR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1128, 16 May 1911, Page 5

A LABOUR WAR.

6 JOHANNESBURG TRAM STRIKE. ;e THE PRISONS FULL. By TekiraDh—Press Association-Co-jvrteb! Johannesburg, Hay 14. The strike of tramway employees here continues. The streets nro being patrolled. Barricades have been erected at danger points, and, the train-sheds converted into a camp. The military is in readiness to reinforce the police. Public opinion is against the strikers owing to the inconvenience paused by the strike. Glynu, arrested on a. charge of inciting a riot, and who has been bailed out, headed strikers who were attempting to rush tho power-station. Stoppage of the machinery would have plunged the Johannesburg streets, shops, and houses in darkness, in addition to stopping tho trams. , Mounted police dispersed the strikers. The town prison is full, and muny of those arrested have been taken to the fort. ilany of the police have been on duty for thirty-six hours. . WELSH MINING DISPUTE. NATIONAL tSATION URGEJj. London, May 11. A largely-attended meeting was held in Trafalgar Squaro on behalf of the South Wales miners' stfiks fund. A resolution was passed to tho effect that as tho earnings of twenty thousand pitmen, working full time, were under twenty-one shillings a week each, there should he nationalisation of the mines anil a statutory minimum wage of 2Ss. a week. Mr. Koir Hardie, Labour M.P. for Mevthyr-Tydvil, said the strikes of. the future wcro going to embrace the whole country. Ht. was not sorrj that the employers had combined; as a matter r fact, they had knocked u little sense into some very thick heads. . FIGHT WITH THE POLICE. EXPLOSIVES ON THE TEAM LINE. (Kec. May 15, 11.55 p.m.) Johannesburg, May 15. The rioters attempted to stop the trams in Market Square, and the police charged the mob with their batons, injuring several persons. , Two sticks of blasting gelatine with a : detonator attached were discovered in . I the groove of a rail, but were removed • I before a tram passed.