LABOUR UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1302, 4 December 1911, Page 7

LABOUR UNREST.

THE RAILWAY CONFERENCE. Rj TtlMTlsh-Press Assoc.fci.Uoii—Gooyiifhl London, December 1. The House of Commons' invitation to the railway companies to hold another conference with tho men bus been submitted to the companies by Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade. It is suggested as a basis for the conference that the findings of the Railway Strike Commission should be accepted iu principle and Substance by both sides. The council of tho railway companies to-day accepted the invitation. Tho railway men's executive have also agreed to a conference. STRIKE. OP DOCPES. London, December 1. During a local strike Messrs. Houldcr Bros.' steamer Valhalla arrived at Swansea with men aboard for loading purposes. Four thousand dockers immediately struck. METAL WORKERS LOCKED OUT. Berlin, December 1. Seventy thousand metal workers are locked out. They rejected the settlement arrived at between tho employers and the union delegates. DASTARDLY RUMOURS. New York, December 1. Rumours to the effect that tho garbage men on strike were poisoning the food of i non-strikers caused a panic, though, tho men are still working. The rumours wcro due to tho mysterious death in hospital of a nonstriker. INCREASED FREIGHTS. Melbourne, December 2. The secretary of the Steamship Owners' Federation declares that the seamen's award will cost the companies one hundred thousand pounds more annually, and probably result in increased freights,