LABOUR TROUBLES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 118, 12 February 1919, Page 7

LABOUR TROUBLES

THE RAILWAY SETTLEMENT APPROVED BY MEMBERS OF NATIONAL UNION THE CLYDE STRIKERS APPEALING TO FELLOW-UNIONISTS :. FOR SUPPORT Telegraph—Press Association--Couyrleht London, February 9. The members of the National Union of Railwaymen have approved the settlement, and it is expected tlrat the tubes will immediately resume operation. The companies have lost J)i2,000 in fares. The waiters will resume work on Monday.. The employers have, consented to consider their conditions. The Clyde strikers are distributing a hundred thousand copies of a manifesto urging their fellow-unionirts in the United Kingdom to support them, and are also' organising women's committees. —A.US.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GLASGOW BAKERSTeMAINING AT WORK GENERAL RESUMPTION HOPED FOE, London, February 10. The Glasgow bakers have decided to remain at work. It is expected that this decision will damp the ardour of the strikers. A general resumption is hoped for by the middle of the week. . The National .Executive of the Electrieal Trade Union met in Manchester, and decided to take a ballot on the 44-hqur week question,, and also to confer .with the-, engineering and shipbuilding trades concerning the grievances attaching to the 17-hour, week.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • 'AUTHORITIES' ACTION COX- V ■ DEMNED. (Bee. February 11, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 9. ... At a mass meeting held at Glasgow the amalgamated unions carried a resolution condemning the action of the authorities, demanding a public inquiry, and-the-release of the strike leaders.—Reuter. UNION OFFICIAL ARRESTED. London, February 10. Mr. Hopkins, secretary of the Clyde Amalgamated Society of* has been arrested on a charge of inciting a riot,- The executive, of the society deposed him from the .secretaryship on February s.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DEMANDS UPOnTaRLIAMENT PROMISES OF SOCIAL REFORM MUST BE REDEEMED. London, February 10. Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., general secretary of the National Union of Railwaynieii, addressed the raihvaymen in London, He announced that the extremist demand, upon Parliament should be ignored as reactionary. If the country wanted a different House it should have, elected one in- December. It would be madness to attempt to reverse the verdict by- industrial action. The railwaymen could paralyse the community; but the State was more important than, any trade union. The extremists would urge 'hurling ah ultimatum at the Government during ■• the forthcoming negotiations, on the ground that the demobilisation, of raihvaymen was necessary in order to render an eight-hour day effective; but the necessities of*the Army must be placed first. He would demand without delay in the House of Commons that the Government should redeem its promises of social reforms. "If the Government foils to redeem them, you can apply your own remedy,.'but not before."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable AssnA 7 5 ■ ■.

DUBLIN LABOUR CONGRESS" DECIDES TO TAKE UNIONS' DEC SION ON HOURS AND WAGES. Dublin, February 10. The Labour Congress has decided to take the .decision of a hundred unions on the question of a forty-four hour week and an increase of 150 per cent, on the pre-war rate of wages. It passed a significant' resolution of sympathy with the Belfast strikers, and appealed for subscriptions for their support.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. STRIKE OF PRINTERS AT ROME .'■-■■ Rome, February 9. Owins to the refusal of the employers to grant increased wages and an eighthours day, a general strike of printers has begun. Only the official Socialist organ is being- published.—Aus.'-N.Z. Cable Assn.