STRIKERS' DEMANDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 7

STRIKERS' DEMANDS.

LABOUR MEMBER'S APPEAL TO

RAILWAYMEN,

IDLE CLAPTRAP CENSURED.

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(Hec. September 15, 10.55 p.m.)

London, September 15. Mr. J. 11. Thomas (Labour member for Derby, and secretary of tlio ltnilwaymon's Union), speaking to the railwaymen at Victoria Park, appealed to tho men not to fritter away their powers and prostitute 'the great position they hold. There was a danger in calling out railwuymen over every littlo sectional dispute. Such action would lead to anarchy. Ho did not bclievo that five per cent of those who demanded a "thirty shilling minimum wage had given five minutes' consideration to what it meant. Tlio demand was so much idlo clap-trap. Would the pay of the higher grades bo increased proportionately? If not their demand was grossly unfair. BEN TILLETT INCITES THE MOB. (If-ec. September 15, 10.55 p.m.) London, September 15. Mr. Ben Tillett, of the Dockers' Union, addressing a mass meeting of ten thousand trade unionists at Southampton, advised the strikers to arm. themselves with tlio most murderous guns tlioy could procure, and bo drilled by ex-soldiers and sailors in order to protect themselves. A resolution was passed condemning the methods of the Dublin police in the recent strike riots.

TROUBLESOME UNION BADGES. (R-ec. September 15, 10.55 p.m.) London, September 15. Following upon ail order to the drivers and conductors of the London Omnibus Company to refrain from wearing union button badges while on duty, twelve wore suspended for wearing buttons. The union threatens a genoral strike of file London busmen. PAINTERS ACCEPT CONCESSIONS. / London, September 14. The result of a ballot of tbo painters is that the men have accepted an im/ncdiato increase of a penny an hour. Other points in dispute, including the payment of another halfpenny an hour, have been roferred to arbitration. Tlio master decorators, employing 7000 men, have agreed to the terms. The men's leaders arc asking the master builders to grant a similar increase. STRIKER'S HUNGER-STRIKE. London, September 14. James Connolly, tho Dublin strike leader who was sent to prison for three months in default- of giving bail for/his future good behaviour, and hungorstruck at Moimtjoy Prison, lias been released. SYDNEY WHARF LABOURERS. Sydney, September 15. Tho position of the wharf labourers'' strilco is unchanged. The strilco lias not extended yet, though it is reported that it threatens to apply to tho steamer Ulimaroa, arriving from New Zealand to-morrow. (Rcc. September 15, 11.35 p.m.) Sydnoy, September 15. Tho shipping company s office staff has commenced' tho work of unloading the Era, with the assistanco of tho permanent 'wharf hands. x Tho Wages Board is still taking ovidonco.