SPREAD OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 103, 24 January 1918, Page 5

SPREAD OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLT

WAR FACTORIES SERIOUSLY AFFECTED EARLY SETTLEMENT VITAL, TO AMERICA'S WAR EFFORTS Further news from Austria indicates a determination on the part of the industrial population of the Dual Monarchy to bring all possible pressure to bear on the Government to seek an easy termination of the war. The slogan of the strikers is "Peace, Bread, and Freedom," and, we are told, peace is the most important. 'Notwithstanding a remarkable compromise by the Government, the men disregard tho advice of their leaders, and, in the parlance of Labour, are "solid" for the strike, which has spread to Lower Austria, and is seriously affecting the war factories. There have been violent collisions between the crowds and the police, but on the whole the strikers are calm and well-behaved, as befits a set purpose. In Russia the Bolshoviki have darkened their already sinister record of outrage and killing by the murder of two ex-Ministers, who were first, arrested, then placed on the sick list in hospital, and while there foully and brutally done to death. Another view of the closing scenes which terminated the farcical session of the Constituent Assembly adds a further touch to the ludicrousness of the situation. One of the guards, a sailor, got up, announced that the guards were tired, and intimated that the proceedings must end. And ended they were! A new and interesting development is reported on the Irish question. The "Times" correspondent at Washington states that President Wil- ' son has informed Mr. Balfour that a settloment of the Irish problem was vital to America's war efforts, and that American dollars would be forthcoming to give the new Government—whatever it may he—a good start on the high road to i/rospority. Other dispatches indicated that the result of the convention will soon bo available. Tho British Government will then havo to determine its line of action, and to avoid embarrassing complications attendant upon his dual position as a member of the War Cabinet and leader of the Ulster Party, Sir Edward Carson has resigned.