INDUSTRIAL UHREST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17693, 2 August 1919, Page 9

INDUSTRIAL UHREST

DEMANDS BY LONDON POLICE.

IMMEDIATE STRIKE DECIDED ON.

Pr«6s Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

LONDON, July 3t. (Received Aug. 1, at 10.5 p.m.) At a mass meeting the London policy decided on an immediate strike to secure recognition of the union and to enforce the withdrawal of the Police Bill. The majority of the London police have not joined the strike.

Sir Is evil Macready intends to dismiss 228 men immediately.— A. and N.Z. Cable.

STRIKE AT EBBW YALE.

BLAST FURNACES CLOSED

FOOLISH ACTION BY WORKERS.

LONDON, July 28. r (Received Aug. 1, at 8.55 p.m.) The directors of the Ebbw Vale Steel Company have decided to close the blast furnaces. The company employs 20,000 workers. The latest strike by 400 skilled workers rendered idle 10,000 employees. Ihe managing director states that fortunately the action of these men caused! an order to be issued by the unionists concerned not to allow a handful of men to stop work in future.

closill S of the furnaces renders idla oUCXJ men for probably six months.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

PROSPECTS NOT BRIGHT.

LONDON, July 28. (Received Aug. 1, at 8.55 p.m.) Sir R. Horn-e, Minister of Labour, on being interviewed, stated that the conntry s wealth was depleted and the industrial outlook was grave. People were indulging in every form of selfishness. Tha manufacturers were profiteering, and the workers, by striking, were paralysing trade. Unless there was a great awakening the nation would go down in disaster. 1 reduction had reached a dangerously low level, and work was the sole corrective.—. A. and N.Z. Cable.

AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN'S STRIKE,

SECRET NEGOTIATIONS.

. MELBOURNE, August l. (Received Aug. 1, at 10.5 p.m.) The strictest secrecy is being observed regarding the strike negotiations. It is believed that the Government baa refused the demand for the release of Walsh, and stands by its original offer of a round-table conference provided the men resume work.