INDUSTRIAL UNREST
BRITISH MINERS* STRIKE.
NORTH NOTTBNCHAWB MEN OUT*
LONDON, July 21. The miners at North Nottingham have struck owing to the increased price of coal. Two hundred thousand axe idle in Yorkshire and Sheffield, and the factories are closing.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
ENGLISH RAILWAY STRIKE SETTLED. LONDON, July 21. The North-eastern * strike '>has been settled.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
FURTHER EXTENSION OF TROUBLE. LONDON, July 22. (Received July 23, at 0.55 a.m.) The miners' resistance to the coal price increase is extending. Forty-five thousand have struck in Derbyshire, and 6000 in Lancashire and Staffordshire.—Times.
AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
CONFERENCE OF UNIONS SITTING,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
MELBOURNE, July 22. The conference of unions concerned
in the maritime strike has been opened.
SEAMEN'S SECRETARY ARRESTED.
FOR BOLSHEVIST SPEECH.
MELBOURNE, July 22. Thomas Walsh, secretary of the Seamen's Union, has been arrested for committinc an offence under the Arbitration Act.
[Walsh's arrest is due to his having, shortly after boirijr fined £100 for inciting to strike, delivered an inflammatory speeari in which he told the seamen that it was "up to thorn" to see that it was unsafe for citizens to be about after 7 p.m.]
WALSH SENT TO GAOL.
UTTERANCES REPUDIATED BY ADELAIDE OFFICIALS.
MELBOURNE, July 22.
(Received July 22, at 10.5 p.m.) Walsh was fined £200 and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The officials of the Federal Council of the Seamen's Unions consider that Walsh's conviction will further embitter the men. ADELAIDE, July 22. (Received July 22, at 10.5 p.m.) Members of the Seamen's Federation emphatically protest against Walsh's revolutionary statements. They consider that he is willing to sacrifice unionism for notoriety and self-glorification.
GENERAL STRIKE IN CHRISTIAN!A.
TRAFFIC PARALYSED.
CHRISTIANIA, Julv 21. (Received July 22, at 9.45 p.m.) A general strike has begun, and the railways and trams are stopped, while the hospitals are without gas or electricity. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17684, 23 July 1919, Page 5
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