LABOUR UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1691, 6 March 1913, Page 5

LABOUR UNREST.

| MIDLAND RAILWAY TROUBLE. ■ HOPEFUL SITUATION. CRISIS WILL BE AVERTED. By Teleeraph—Press AissociaLion-CoDj-ricM (liec. .March 5, !U0 p.m.) t London, March 5. Interviewed .by Ihu 1 ; 1 " "Manchester Guardian," Richardson,'li'tho dismissed guard, stated that 1 lie control officer had not .informed him- that' he had instructions from head ollieo to vary tho loading when he" (Richardson) said ho ivould refuse to obey the General Manager. lie spoko hazily, and lie meant that: ha required tp Jjij' freed from personal responsibility. Mr. MurraJ" Smith, chairman of tho Midland Railway, writing after he had read tho interview, said that the company had no animus; if Richardson undertook to obey future orders he could bo reinstated!-' : • The newspapers are hopeful that the crisis %ill be averted. TRANSPORT WORKERS' STRIKE. (liec. March G, 0.35 a.m.). : Perth, ■ March 5. , ,The transport workers who struck'werfl ..concerned in disorderly scenes. \ Lorries j were stuck up and non-unionists drivers forced to flee. The non-unionists are now working under police protection, WHEAT MARKET PARALYSED. Sydney, March 5. Owing to the . wlu>at-handlers' stviko shippors are not and the market is paralysed. The nominal i|notation is reduced to !te (lid. BRITISH RAILWAYS. STRIKE RESOLI'TIOXS CARRIED. , London, March I. Doneasler railway men have carried resolutions in favour of a strike to rein- . state Guard Richardson; also lo demand as an uidgniaity a universal eight hours, an ali-i-ound advance in wages of .sixpence daily, with a lninilmim of 1 30s. weekly, and the reinstatement of all met victimised since August, 1911. STRIKE COMMITTEES FORMING. London, March i. Mr. James Thomas, Labour M.l>. for Derby, states that strike committees arc forming in numerous railway ccntresy and that a .greater' determination exists over the present single simple issue tliaii over the ( 1!)11 conflict-. ' ' The'railway men have not. sought' Board of Trade intei'vohlklu. The Midland railway,officials have declared that they have prepared a plan of campaign iii thy event of a strike, and will fight to a finish, and decline Gov- , eminent intervention..