THE STRIKES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 119, 13 February 1919, Page 5

THE STRIKES

LONDON SHIPYARDS AND DOCK HANDS

RESUMING

GENERAL RESUMPTION ON CLYDE EXPECTED

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

. . London, February 11. The strikers in the London shipyards and docks are steadily resuming work. The hotelkeepers have decided not to recognise the Waiters' Union. The strikers have resumed.

Fifty per cent, of; the shipyard workers on the Clyde are working, and a general resumption is expected on Wednesday.

: The transport workers are demanding a forty-four hours week. The employers offer t61.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE MINERSMJEMANDS GOVERNMENT'S~REPLr RECEIVEP. (Rec. February 12, 7.30 p.m.) London, February 11. The miners have received the Government's reply to the demand for a sixhour day, a 30 per cent, increase in wages, and the nationalisation of the mines. The reply has not been disclosed. It will be submitted to the Federation Conference to-morrow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BELFAST EMPLOYERS OFFER SHORTER HOURS CONFERENCE TO SETTLE DETAILS. (Rec. February 12, 7.30 p.m.) Belfast, February 11. The employers have offered shorter hours if the men will return in order to enable the conference to settle details. The Strike Committee accepted the offer. The men will ballot immediately, and it is confidently expected that tin strike will now terminate.—Aus.N.Z/Cable Assn.

PROVISIONAL SETTLEMENT ARRIVED AT. (Rec. ?ebruary 13, 1.20 a.m.)

London, February 11. The Belfast strike has been provisionally settled, the men agreeing to resume on the basis of a forty-four hour week, pending a conference, at which the employers undertake to recommend ' less than a forty-seven hour week.—Reuter.

THE GOVERNMENT'S ACTION DETERMINED TO FIGHT ANARCHIC AIMS,. (Rec. February 12, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 11. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George said that the Government's negotiations had resulted in agreements regarding the hours and -wages of two million ! people. Negotiations were in progress affecting, two million others/ Anarchy was the aim. and purpose of'the men who were attempting to undermine confidence in the trade union leaders. The Government was determined to fight this Prussianism with the whole might of the nation. It would suppress attempts to overthrow the existing order by brute force.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

STRIKE AT SEATTLE CANCELLED I.AV.W. AGITATORS THWARTED. (Rec. February 12, 10.25 p.m.) ' New York, February 11. The general strike at Seattle has been cancelled,by the unions, whose national leaders repudiated sympaj.iy with the strike.

The Mayor, Mr. Hanson, Maims that he has thwarted the revolutioii and reign of terror, which he charges the Bolshevik and I.W.W. agitators with instigating. Ho says the conspirators hoped the disorders would spread to every city in America, and finally overthrow the Government.

At Tneoraannd San Francisco the Labour Party declined to support the -Seattle strikers.—Reuter.