ON STRIKE.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1926, Page 3

ON STRIKE.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] ’TRADE UNION REPORT. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.i LONDON, May 10. A Trade Union Congress communique says the front remains unbroken and the difficulty is of keeping the other men in, pending any decision to call them out. Tt quotes a message from the National Union of Railwaymcn declaring the reports that men have returned to work at different centres, is proved to he entirely without foundation. It also quotes a Transport Union message that all are solid and the spirit wonderful. The T.U.C. adds that it has received a message from the Master of Balliol and the Master of Oxford University, earnestly hoping for future peace and unity in the country and that nothing may be allowed to stand in the way of an attempt to resume negotiations. The senders state this resolution was signed by fifty-eight Fellowcs and one hundred and thirty other graduates. Irish trade unionists complied with the T.U.C. request to hold up foodstuff shipment to Britain at Port Dublin, and this has brought the crosschannel shipping to a standstill. Prices of farm produce has fallen considerably in the Free State. English mails which reached Kingston on Friday night have since been held up, owing to the dockers refusal to handle them. Volunteers have now taken them off under police protection. SEAMAN SENTENCED.

A seaman was sentence* to three months’ hard labour at Greenwich for urging a hig crowd to set about tlio police. The .superintendent said accused’s conduct led to fifteen arrests and originated trouble at Deptford on •Saturday night; necessitating the calling out of one hundred police. Bricks and bottles were thrown and plate glass windows smashed. Three others were sentenced to a month and two months. FRENCH REPORTS’. PARIS, May 10. A special correspondent sent to London by many French newspapers, loudly praiso the Government measures to cope with the situation. Pertinese, of the “ Echo do Paris,” expresses the opinion that the back of the strike is already broken. TWO ARRESTS. LONDON, May 10. Two Durham labour lenders Lnwther (ex-parliamentary candidate for South Shields) and Bolton (chairman of B 1 aydon Urban district council) were arrested under the Emergency Act at Winlnton, charged and remanded. Bail was refused.