MILITANT LABOUR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1352, 1 February 1912, Page 5

MILITANT LABOUR.

MINORS' WAGESSIX MONTHS' NOTICE. DISCUSSION NEXT WEEK. By TolecraDh—Press Association-OopTrieht London, January .'lO. A joint nonferoim , uf owners and miners of British coalfields will bo held on February 7 to discuss the minimum wage. .Scottish miniT.s linv« tendered six months' notice of the termination of tho existing agreement, but the owners contend that insistence upon the minimum wage itself is a broach of agreement. Tho-Conciliation Board will discuss the point on February' !). THAMES IRONWORKS. WARNING FROM UNIONS, London, January 30. The trade unions strongly disapprove of the decision of Thames Ironworks employees to eacrifieo half of the November advance in wages in order to enable the company to secure tho contracts for two cruisers. Tho executivo of tho Carpenters' and Joiners', Engineers' and Boilomiakors', and Shipwrights' Trades Unions havo intimated to their members working at tho Thames Ironworks that they will not bo allowed to accept wages below the Tales presented for tho London district. GLASGOW DOCKERS' STRIKE. PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS. London, January 30. Seven thousand dockers are striking at Glasgow. They demand that non-union-ists should be discharged if unionists are available to replace them; also that foremen should be members of the union. MARTIAL LAW IN LISBON. CAVALRY CHARGE THE MOB. (Roc. February 1, 1.5 a.m.) Lisbon, January 31. The majority of the prisoners who were arrested at Evora have been released. The Strike Committee in Lisbon advised the men to refrain from anything that would-deprive the people of foodstuffs. Despite the committee's evident desire for more peaceful methods', tho Government has proclaimed martial law in Lisbon, and notified the citizens that they must not leave their houses after eight o'clock. It ordered the troops to mako n 1 clean sweep of the streets, effect arrests en masse, and send suspects to the warships. \ While the orders were being carried out several bombs were thrown. Troops of cavalry charged with drawn swords.