LABOUR UNREST

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 254, 22 July 1919, Page 5

LABOUR UNREST

NATIONALISATION PROPOSALS

BALLOT ON DIRECT ACTION

SUGGESTED

fly TelosriDh—Press Associatlon-OouyrlKhl London, July 20. Owing to the refusal of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress to call a, national labour conference on the nationaiisa f ion proposals, the uniners wilt submit to the conference of the Triple Alliance on Wednesday a proposal to ballot in tho dilt'erent sections on direct action in connection with the subject, and also with a view to preventing the military intervening in trado union disputes. 'This attitude is regarded as the prelude to a light for nationalisation.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.'

lit was reported on .May .10 that the National Union of General Workers, tfce Dockers' Union, and the Carters' Union had formed an organisation v.ith'a membership only exceeded by the Triplo Alliance. The movement ia '.-onncotod with a schemo to include the textile unions, under which the extremists hope to be ablo to force the nationalisation of all land, minerals, mines, royalties, and railways. The extremists, however, suffered a setback when ,tho Parliamentary Committee of the 'Trades Union Congress definitely refused to call a .National Labour Conference to consider the schemes.!

RAILWAYMAN'S STRIKE SETTLED

CRec. July 22, 0.5 a.m.)

London, July 21. The North-Eastern railwaynien have accepted a settlement of their dispute — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

TA strike began at Doncaster on account of the rejection of a driver owing to failing eyesight, and spread throughout the North-Eastern Railway system, causing a serious food situation in tho north-eastern counties. Tho Railwaymen's Union management arranged "a settlement, on the basis of a postponement of the drivers' tnsts and the reinstatement of suspended men, but it was stated yesterday t.lmt the strikers had repudiated the settlement.]

CAPE TOWN TRAMWAYMEN STRIKE fflec. July 21, 10.30 p.m.) ■ Cape Town, July 20. The industrial unrest has spread to Cane Town, "where a strike of tramway employees is in progress. Trnflic is entirely suspended in ■ ilie city and suburbs.*—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ITALIAN STRIKE A FIASCO TRAIN AND TRAM SERVICES TO CONTINUE. (Reo. July 21, 8.10 p.m.) Rome, July 1!). The strike has proved a fiasco. The trams niul trains will continue all .over the country, ruimiiig- normally. Central and Southern Italy are entirely Unaffected.

Signer Nitti, the Premier, speaking in the Chamber, said he was not aware that the Confederation of Labour had abandoned the strike. The Government had made the fullest preparations to suppress disorders.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' FAILURE OFFRENCB STRIKE STRENGTHENS CLEMENCEAU GOVERNMENT. (Rec. July 21, S.lO p.m.) Paris, July 20. The failure of to-day's projected strjke of protest against Allied intervention abroad strengthens the authority of the Clemenceau Government. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.