LABOUR UNREST IN ENGLAND.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1863, 24 September 1913, Page 7

LABOUR UNREST IN ENGLAND.

SIGNS OF PEACE,

STORM SIGNALS IN SOUTH

AFRICA.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright : London, September 22. Throughoutl tho day tho conference between Sir George Askwith, of tho British Board of Trado ; and the parties tj tho motor-bus drivers and , conductors' dispute, discussed the question of recognition of the union in an amicable spirit. Sir Georgo Askwith announces that a settlement has been signed. The men's leaders wiil explain the terms of tho agreement at a meeting at midnight. A great meeting of motor-bus drivers and conductors reiterated their resolve to striko at midnight unless the conference with tho parties to the dispute conceded their full demands. The railway strikers at Liverpool, Birmingham, and Derby have resumed work. (Rec. September 23, 10.25 p.m.) London, September 23. The busmen havo secured the recognition of their union, and the right to wear union badges. They have undertaken to refrain from participating in sympathetic strikes. (Rec. 24, 0.25 a.m.) London, September 23. Strikers attacked an engine-lion so at the Anstell clay works, and a policeman was shot in the leg 6, being seriously injured. "LARKINISM." (Rec. September 24, 0.25 a.m.) London, September 23. Timber importers at Dublin requested four hundred employees tp (sign an agreement to handle goods from any source. All refused, and wero locked out. Mr. D. Sheehy, M.P. (Nationalist), speaking at Navan, said that "Larlcinism" meant Anarchy. Larkin was everything—he alone could decide. Ho commanded a striice. That was a stato of things never yet recognised in Labour Unions in England.

IN SOUTH AFRICA. TRADES FEDERATION TO MEET. Cape Town, September 22. Tho Trades Federation will hold a special meeting on September 27 to discuss a resolution to tho effect that tho Government trumped up the recent labour prosocutibns in order to cripple organised labour. A striko is suggested as a protest.

SYDNEY WHARF MEN. AWARD OF THE WAGES BOARD. (Rec. September 23, 9.10 p.m.) Sydney, September 23. The award of tho Wages Board which dealt with tho lato wharf-labourers' trouble, has been issued. It fixes tho number of bags of chaff to bo carried on a truck at four, and bags of heavy goods qt two. It also stipulates that not less than six men shall bo employed trucking to and from tho hatch, that wen must not bo compelled to carry salt, and ,fixes a number of other points in dispute—thoso iii reference to the engaging of nfon and tho working of cargo. The award operates until Septembor, 1915.