STRIKE WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1861, 22 September 1913, Page 7

STRIKE WAR.

GREAT LABOUR UPHEAVAL IN ENGLAND.

PORT OF MANCHESTER PARALYSED.

HOPE FOR BIRMINGHAM.

IRRESPONSIBLE AGITATORS CONDEMNED.

By Tel«rr»ph—treea Association—Oopyrlrtt London, September 19. Tho trado of the port of Manchester is paralysed. Five thousand persons aro idte % Efforts to arraugo a conferenco proved abortive.

Ono hundred and fifty railway men at tho Brunswick Docks, have struck.

•Tho bonforence of railway official's and strikers at Liverpool has resulted in a deadlock.

Tho companies offered to reinstate tho strikers in their employment only if thoy promised to handle all goods.

AT BIRMINGHAM. IRRECONCILABLE UNIONISTS, • London, September 19. The Birmingham Striko Committee condemns tho National Union of Railway Men's weakness and procrastination.

Tho striko will continue until a policy regarding blackleg traffio has been defined.

At the request of tho Chamber of Commerce, the Birmingham authorities have offered police protection to traders wishing to' bring goods from tho railway depots. The Birmingham mon are Increasingly indignant. They allege that tho local leaders deliberately concealed from tho executive of tho union that they wero repudiating tho strike. Two hundred and eighty have resumed work. Two' hundred of tho Midland Company's railway men at Derby havo struck in sympathy with those at Liverpool and Birmingham. Three railway men at Crewe have been i suspended for refusing to handlo Dublin goods, and fivo hundred havo struck'in sympathy, causing a complete stoppage. Tho executive of the National Transport Workers' Federation has been summoned to meet in: London on Monday next to review tho situation, especially in regard to Dublin.

BRIGHTER PROSPECTS. UNIONS INSIST ON RECOGNITION. (Rcc. September 21, 5.6 p.m.) London, September 20. There are now more hopeful prospects of a settlement in the railway dispute. All the companies concerned have offered to reinstate strikers willing to handlo any traffio which tho railways may bo bound by law to accept. _ Birmingham's repudiation of the decision -of tho Committee of tho National Union lias caused chaos thoro. Tho local leaders encourage a continuation of tho strike.

Sovon hundred railway mon at Sheffield are striking. .

The steam car and British automobile companies are employing many motorbuses, and havo agreed to recognise tho union's representatives. The men declare that they will not agrco to anything Sir George Askwith (tho Industrial Commissioner) suggests, unless tho unions aro recognised. This view finds general support. If it fails to find endorsement by tho emploverß, the Btriko will begin on Monday night, with tho support of tho tubemen.

Five thousand non-unionists joined the union since the beginning of tho dispute. (Reo. September 22, 0.30 a.m.) London, September 21, Tlib Liverpool'railway men have unanimously resolved to resume to-morrow.' Tho Union of Railway Men has rccoinmended all. its members to resume.

LONDON BUSMEN. NO GENERAL STRIKE. London, September 19. The Lord Mayor (Sir David Burnett) summoned a conference of the directors of the firm of Thomas Tilling and Co. (tho cab, motor-bus, and carriago proprietors, who dismissed some of their employees for wearing union badges while on duty), and the men's representatives. The conference failed to sccuro an agreement. Non-unionists offered to work for Tilling and Co. if the company would guarantee never to recognise the union. The company refused, whereupon tho nonunionists joined the union.

The Omnibus Companies and the men's unions have agreed to confer with Sir George Askwith, of the Board of Trade, on Monday next. Meanwhile there will bo no general striko of busmen in London.

SHARP CONDEMNATION. BY INDEPENDENT LABOUR MEMBER. (Rec. September 21, 5.6 p.m.) London, September 20. Mr. Phillip Snowden (Socialist M.P.). In a letter to tho "Morning Post,' says that it is unfortunate that the labour trades unions throughout the world are following tho revolutionary appeals of such men as Larkin and Tillett, though thero are signs that practical experience is sobering the Homo workmen. Labour, ho says, secured a small but substantial gain from the disputes of the last two years, but when men win, in any particular demand, every workman knows that tho employers indirectly take it out of tho workmen.' An irresponsible section of tho trado unions (continues the writer) exercise this influence altogether beyond their numbers. The leaders of a union havo been led more ofton than they have led, and this now policy of militancy would certainly ruin trado unionism if not subdued. The old policy had built up strong reserves, Tefraincd from exasperating tho public and employers, and secured publio sympathy. "The new policy is to enter a striko without any effort being made to secure a settlement, to exasperate tho employers by every means, and indulge in wild sanguinary language." Mr. Snowden concludes by advocating Stat-o arbitration and' trades boards. State arbitration, ho says, would make trades' unionism strong and universal, as had been done in tho colonies.

BROKEN HILL SHOPS STRIKE. TROUBLE NOT YET OVER. ■ Sydney, September 20. Though tho bulk of tho female and some of the male shop assistants at Broken Hill have resumed work, trouble still exists. Tlioro have been liostilo demonstrations, and to some extent a boycott has been utilised against thoso who have resumed. Tho shops are picketed, but there has been no interference with trade, There is a possibility of tho Millions calling a wider strike.