INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 38, 27 January 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

REPENTANT CARTERS

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

(Received 27, 8.5 a.m.)

London, January 26

The Great Northern Company’s carters are willing to resume provided their comrades’ case is submitted to arbitration.

LABOUR’S IDEAL

(Received 27, 8.5 a.m.) London, January 26,

Mr Ramsay MacDonald, presiding at a meeting in the Birmingham Town Hall appealed to labour leader's to go forward until the red flag of liberty and ( socialism superseded the skull and cross-bones of the tariff reformer.

BIRMINGHAM CONFERENCE

London, January 26

The Birmingham Conference decided to vote £6OOO per annum, which is the extent of the payment the members had received from tho Labour Party towards the cost of a Labour newspaper.

Resolutions were carried in favour of the right to strike, and condemning the employment of soldiers in connection vgith strikes. Until the Osborne judgment is reversed, all trades unions are advised to defy the law.

CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY

Sydney, January 26

'The annual conference of the Political Labour League has been opened. The press is excluded. The president, in his opening speech, said the agenda was unlikely to give much trouble, and chiefly dealt -with sane subjects.

BRISBANE TRAM STRIKE

Biisbane, January 26

, Many unions have appointed dolegates to the conference on Sunday to discuss the tram strike, with power to vote for a general strike if it is considered expedient.

LABOUR CONFERENCE

(Received 27, 10.45 a.m.) London, January 26,

The (Labour Conference at Birmingham passed a resolution demanding an amendment to the Insurance Ac,t on the ground that contributions are unjustly heavy and the Bill will injure trade unions. The conference condemned the foreign policy of armaments and militarism and favoured an inquiry into how far a general strike in the countries concerned would tend to avert war. The conference also urges the establishment. of the principle of the right to work in order that reduction of armaments may not involve unnecessary hardships oil workers. There were dramatic scenes when the miners’ the suffrage resolution on the ground that they did not intend to refuse manhood suffrage merely because women’s suffrage was not included. The miners were defeated by 919,000 votes to 636,000.

t- . . ” MINERS’ MINIMUM WAGE

(Received 27, 10.45 a.m.) London, January 26.

The subcommittee of the mine-own-ers and miners sat for three days in London endeavouring to find a basis for settlement of the minimum wage dispute. It is understood that a settlement was agreed upon subject to confirmation by the principals. HOW TO STOP STRIKES. '(Received 27, 9.40 a.m.) Hobart, January 27.

A Liberal Women’s Conference delegate, referring to the injustice of giving preference to unionists, said she would like to see a secret ballot of wives of workers before a strike. That would stop it on the spot. BRISBANE TRAM STRIKE. (Received 27, 9.40 a.m.) Brisbane, January 27. A serious extension of the strike is predicted as a result of Sunday’s conference.

THE PERTH STRIKE

(Received 27, 9.40 a.m.) Perth, January 27

As a result of the engineers’ strike, two hundred casual hands in the railway workshops wore paid off. A navvies’ strike collapsed. NEW ZEALAND SEAMEN. Wellington, January 26. The agreement arrived at on Wednesday between the Federated Seamen’s Union and the shipowners provides, amongst other things, that overtime for boating cargo in roadsteads be paid at the rato of Is 9d per hour, working cargo Is 6d, chipping and scaling the inside of boilers Is Gd. It shall be optional for any member of a crew to work overtime between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. at| the following ports (provided one-fourth of the crew remains on board): —Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, or his home port. Each man when joining his ship is to declare his home port. When a vessel leaves any of the main ports on Sunday or a holiday, each member of the crew will be paid an extra day’s sea pay. For. excursions on holidays each of the crew will be paid Is per hour for the time the ship is so employed, with it minimum payment of 4s on short trips, and where only two firemen, greasers, or trimmers are carried a watch will be six hours on and six off. The crews of all vessels will bo entitled to the following holidays in port:—New

Day, Sovereign’s Birthday, Labour Day, and Boxing Day. The new seamen’s agreement comes into force on March 1, and will remain in force until February 28, 1914, and thereafter will continue in force until a new agreement is entered into. The agreement doe's not affect th s.s. Aparima.

WELLINGTON TRAMWAYS

Wellington, January 26,

While the City Council’s decision concerning the continuation of Fuller as a ticket inspector was pending, a secret ballot was taken among members of the Tramways Union as to whether, supposing Fuller is retained, they should give notice to strike. Three hundred and fifty ballot papers were returned. Of these 275 are for a strike and 66 against, nine being informal. About 50 members, it is understood, have not voted.