INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 8 January 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

DISSATISFIED COAL MINERS. London, January 0. The, South Wales coal-owners protested against the South ’Wales Miners’ Federation’s proposed ballot respecting a general strike, as a violation of the 1910 agreement, which is not terminable until 1915. Mr Mahon states that the result of the ballot will probably turn idle one million miners, and 750,000 tons of coal daily will bo withdrawn from the market. The policy of • stopping at nothing will involve loss of life and property, to which previous struggles wore it flea bite. It will also provide a great oppmtiinity to Americans to export coal to Britain. The Chronicle says some arrangement could have been made ior st-cur-ing to the miners aho were working in bad places a fair wage, but the policy was not suited to the men who lately came to the front in the councils of the Minors’ Federation. They had been carried off their feet by a wave of syndicalism, and want a general stoppage. MINERS RECEIVE AN ADVANCE. London, January 6. The Northumberland coal owners have granted the miners an advance of LI per cent. - • THAMES IRONWORKS. i . I . f . . ,-.... | f London, January 6.' A- 'mooting of ’workers in the Tli'amcs Iroqtvorkp resolved not to work fifty l three - hours- weekly. ■ 1 ;. i} L -s ! - i SHIPYARDS . STRIKE ; SPREADS- 1 London, January 6. The strike in the shipyards agaimn discharge notes is spreading in the north. , ... Employers state that without discharge notes men leave work unfinished. THE COTTON TRADE DISPUTE.

London, January 6. , Sir E. Askwith’s conferences with the two parties in the cotton trade trouble have adjourned to enable suggestions to lie made with a -view to settling the non-unionists question submitted by the respective sides. MASTERS AND WEAVERS. . London, January 1 6. The masters have declined the weavers’ demand for a 5 per cent, advance. FORTY-EIGHT HOURS’ WEEK. (Received 8, 9.10 a.m.) London, January 7. A campaign for a 48 hours’ week, in the shipbuilding trade throughout the country is threatened, owing to the Thames ironworks deadlock. NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT. (Received 8, 9.10 a.m.) London, January 7. A conference at Glasgow representing a quarter of a million workers is considering the National Insurance Act. Mr. Barnes urged the delegates to accept the Act, which would tend to lesson industrial evils.