LABOUR UNREST

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2208, 22 July 1914, Page 7

LABOUR UNREST

THE DEPORTEDS AGAIN. By TeleKTaDh—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. July 21, 11.15 p.m.) i •: London, July 21. Counsel, on behalf of three of the South African ' deporteds, Messrs. Waters.ton, Morgan, and M'Kerrell, who aro bringing an action against the' owners of the Umgeni for false'imprisonment,, applied. for an early hearing, on the ground that two of theni are'suffering from miner's phthisis. Ho also mentioned that circumstances had arisen whereby six others had abandoned actions. ' BUILDERS DETERMINED. "limes" and Sydney "Sun" Rervlces. London, July 20. A working builders' demonstration in Trafalgar Square -resolved that nothing short of sheer starvation Would compel t'hem to return to work on tho present terms. SCOTTISH MINERS' INTENTIONS. London, July 20. Mr. Robert Smillie, president of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, and president of the Scottish Miners' Federation, in a speech at Nelson, said tho Scottish miners would rcfuso a'reduction in pay of a shilling a day, but would offer a four-day week, and risk the threatened lock-out. FUTILE RUSE OF STRIKERS. - v "Times" and Bydnc% "Hnn" Paris, July 20. Striking carpenters at Marseilles waylaid two employers ,at the point of 'tho revolver, aiid compelled them to sign a pledgo not to employ non-unionists. The documents were used to induce ether, employers to surrender, but tho truth was rovealed and tho strikers arrested. GENERAL STRIKE IMMINENT. (Rec. July '21, 10.55 p.m.) 1 St. Petersburg, July 21. One hundned and forty thousand workers in various trades have struck' owing to the authorities suppressing demonstrations of sympathy with tho Baku strikers. Collisions liavo occurred between tho police and the strikers at the Putiloff works, and elsewhere. -' ' ■ ■ • There are similar demonstrations in Moscow and elsewhere, and it is bolieved a general striko is imminent. WORK RESUMED. •'•■'. Melbourne, July 21. The State shipyard striko has been settled, and -\vork resumed under the conditions oxisting prior to tho stoppage. ' •