STRIKE TROUBLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1919, Page 2

STRIKE TROUBLES.

| rAUSTRALIAN & N.z’. CABLE ASSOCIATION] POLICE STRIKE AVERTED. LONDON, January 27. A London and provincial police ’•’strike has, temporarily, been averted, i The men have been promised a» in- ! quiry into the Midland railway dismis- : sals. Meanwhile the question of the recognition of the Union is in abeyance.

NOTTS STRIKE SUSPENDED. LONDON, January 28. Tlie Nottingham and Derbyshire colliery owners have withdrawn their notices to the demobilised men whom they intended to discharge to make room for more soldiers. The strike has therefore been suspended, pending the reinstatement of th e men in question. Negotiations will now be commenced by the men for a six-hour day, and a flat rate of wages..

DRIVERS’ DISPUTEWELLINGTON January 2D. The position of the Drivers dispute wa s placed before the Conference of the National Labour Organisations by the Drivers’ Federation to-day. The efforts to obtain increased wages and a 48 hour week, and also the refusal of the employers to concede tho men’s demands were explained.

The Conference decided unanimously to support the Drivers’ Federation, and to give every support required by the Transport Workers’ Advisory Board in whose hands the dispute has been: placed.

NEW STORM CENTRE. GENERAL STRIKE AT CLYDE.. LONDON, Jan. 27.. Tho Labour storm centre is now on> the Clyde. The position is said to be uncertain, as it is not known what support: the strikers’ will command. There have been a series of union’ and Labour meetings over the weekend on Saturday and yesterday. Somespeakers favoured an immediate strike.. Others went for a postponement, while vet others favoured awaiting develop-

ments. The latest reports,-however, indicate’ that the stoppage of work will be general. Several of the largest ship-building yards and works including, Harland and Wolf, at Belfast and Ileardmores. are involved in the strike project.. There is some uncertainty regarding; the municipal strike arranged: for today in Glasgow. It is now believed' the tramwaymen and electrical workers', will remain at work. There is a greater likelihood however, that the bakerswill strike. LATER. The Clyde strike has started. Most yards affected.

NEW SORT OF UNION. LONDON, Jan. 27. The colliery managers and mine foremen of the South Wales coalfields have formed a Union. They have applied to the owners for a maximum wage and for shorter hours. The coal owners are giving fourteen days to recognise the Union, otherwise the managers’ and foremen’s union will stop work.

PREVENTION OF STRIKES. LONDON, Jan. 27.. Rt. Hon. Air. "Clyncs, for Ministry;, is strongly urging the holding of athoroughly representative industrial round-table conference to devisomeans to prevent strikes. He points out that any changes towards betterment in any given trade should be considered in relation to the claims which,, as a result, would l be inevitable in otheroccupations, and in relation to t! < claims of the whole community.

INTERNATIONAL LABOURNEW YORK, Jan. 27. The United Press interviewed: Mr:. Arthur Henderson at Borne. Ho ‘ 1 dared that the International Congress of Labour hopes that the Peace Delegation will endorse the following programme : A League of Nations, including Germany; an international labour charter; abolition of compulsory military service; general disarmament; prohibition of the manufacture of war materials, except by international control; and: exclusively inoral intervention in Russian affairs.

SEAAIAN’S UNION THREAT: NEW YORK, Jan. 27th. Captain Tupper, an international organiser for the Seamen’s Union,, stated that all parts of the world’ except Austria and Germany, had" called a great mass meeting to be- held ifr London on the 24th February, wlii'-’' would demand that the Kaiser be turned over to an International Tribunal, on a charge of piracy on the high seas. “If this is not granted,” lie asserted, “you may look out for a general walk out on the seven seas.”

A CONFERENCE. LONDON, January 27. The Boilermakers and Shipbuilders blacksmiths, after a fresh interview with Air Horne, of the Labour Ministry decided to recommend the calling of a full Joint Negotiations Committee and a Conference of the Unions., with a. view to obtaining a suspension of the unconfirmed memorandum of the 24th December and to secure wages equal to those of the longer working week,.