LABOUR UNREST.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 September 1910, Page 3

LABOUR UNREST.

TRADE UNION CONGRESS

OPENING DAY

A WELCOME BY AN KARL

A FOOLISH PBOTEST.

[by electiuc TRiiEonAni-corYiuanT.] [PKU I'UESS ASSOCIATION. J (Received This Day, 0.10 a.m.) LONDON, HoptcinbcJ* 12. t l iv6 luwulred delegates arc presotit attending the Trades Union Congress at Sheffield. The Lord Mayor, Earl Fitzwilliam, received them and acted at, chflii'mahi Four members wit'hdiw', protesting ngaiust Earl Fitzwilliain's prosonco, WORKERS ASK FOR A CONFERENCE PAOTFIC ATTITUDE OF THE UNIONS.

FIFTY THOUSAND MEN* IDLE. LONDON", September 2. Tho standing committee of the trade societies, which are signatories to the working agreeinont in the shipbuilding trade, have asked for a conference with the employers at the earliest convenient tTnte.

. The Daily Madl hopes the ship (building employers will p. eept this invitation inasmuch as it might be possible to settle the difficulties.

The Trade Unions ask the em ployors not to lock out in : -se «■!' ;; seotkvnnl shrike, and if this U (>■.'■ ceded they pledge themselves 1deal vigorously with the offenders even to the extent of expelling re calcitrants in tlio future.

Forty-eight thousand men arc •now idle.

A meeting of Great Northern Railway men at Manchester raytonired mi arbitration meeting in London, but decided to follow the opinion of tlio majority. The Peterborough men bare recommended a joint reference to Lord. Mnedouuoll.

BLACKLEG KILLED

PARirS, September 12. Coal heavers at Havre, who arc t>ll strike, killed a blackleg. Three arrests have been made,