RIOTS IN BELFAST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8897, 17 August 1907, Page 2

RIOTS IN BELFAST.

Press Assooutr i—Copyright. Lotrnos, August 16. !Tho carters' strike in Belfast has been settled. Thay have been conceded in in some cases 5s a week rise, the average increase boinsr 2s. The freedom of employers to employ whom they choose is recognised. JSlr l-sivrell replying to Labour morobora in the riouso of Commons declared that the civil authorities in Belfast were justified in requisitioning tho military as a precautionary measure. Every one deplored tho deaths that had occurred but had tho mob obtained the mastery tho loss of life would have been terrible. The carters in Belfast have resumed work. Sir Antony MeDoueU, at Belfast, eulogised the inaguauimiiy of tho ,■,,.;.;[-'.-,• f-arrierr. iu facing temporary lo;-s and added that iiierchiiui.i would treat them liberally in the settlement of t' ; e coal mail's ;•>>•■ 1 dockers strike \v!ii"ch I.; ;.;ip:!rei:i.iy vh-Mii- to 1)3