LABOUR UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1361, 12 February 1912, Page 7

LABOUR UNREST.

DISORDER AT GLASGOW. COLLISION WITH POLICE. By Tcleeraoa—Proas London, February 9. Two thousand dockers at Glasgow rushlid the barricades and overpowered the police. Thoy boarded a steamer searching for non-unionists. Tho polico charged with batons, and mado twelve arrests. SETTLEMENT ARRANGED. STRIKE SPREADS TO MANCHESTER. (Roc. February 11, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 10. Further riots have occurred in connection with the Glasgow dockers' strike. Meanwhile a sub-committee representing both sides, under tho presidency of. Sir G. R. Askwith, of the Board of Trade Labour Department, has arranged a basis of settlement. The men at Manchester have now struck on the non-unionist question, and have held a mass meeting at which they threatened a general strike of transport workers in sympathy. MASS MEETING ACCEPTS THE j SETTLEMENT. POSITION OF NON-UNIONISTS. (Eec. February 12, 1.5 a.m.) London, February 11. A mass meeting of Glasgow dockers accepted tho settlement, whjch differs but little from that previously rejected. The right of tho employers to employ nonunionists remains unimpaired. MINERS' STRIKE FEARED. London, February 9. The executive of tho Northumberland miners stato that thero is a gloomy prospect of avoiding a strike. AN AMERICAN SCHEME. FOR A BIG RAILROAD STRIKE. Chicago, February 9. According to the newspapers Labour leaders are secretly perfecting a territorial organisation of railroad shop employees. It is proposed to include every railroad operating west of the Mississippi. The object is the enforcing of the demand for a general increase of wages. The plan involves a general strike on all railroads if wages are not increased. NEWSPAPER MACHINISTS GO OUT. (Rec. February 12, 1.5 a.m.) Sydnoy, February 11. The "Sunday Times" machinists struck »t midnight for better wages and conditions. Only a few copies of the paper were published. Sir George B. Askwith, K.C.8., stands alono as a strike-settler. Other men have settled an occasional dispute, and been honoured for it, but Sir George has settled the best part of a hundred. He has an almost uncanny felicity in keeping silent until the right moment comes, then catching the first train and remaining at work until the differences are com- ; posed. He has tact, wit, reticence, patience, and a magnificent contempt for redtape. A tallish, slim man, with a heavy iron-grey moustache, he "looks'more like tho sq/dier his father was than the lawyer he is himself. Born in 18G1, the son of the late General W. H. Askwith, R.A., he was educated at Marlborough and Brasenose, Oxford, was called to the Bar, and took silk in. 190 S. From being as-sistant-secretary in the Labour Department at the Board of Trade, he developed naturally to the position of national strike settler. His official position is >■■:<•■'.[ -oiler-General of the Commercial, .-'..r'.:■.•. and Statistical Departments of ■ ':iz l\ :rd of Trade.