INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 52, 26 February 1912, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

NO CARGO FROM SYDNEY. (Received 26, 10.5 a.m.) Sydney, February 23. The wharf labourers are still holding up the Brisbane steamers. Those sadiug on Saturday took no cargo. They have also declined to discharge vessels arriving from the northern port. INDICATIONS OF THE END. , . (Received 26, 10.5 a.m.) ■ • " Brisbane, February 26. Mr. Coyne denies the'M'umour that the strike committee decided to order all strikers excepting tramway employees to resume on Tuesday. He declared that the miners and wharf labourers would remain out as long as they were required to. Notwithstancling this declaration,, there is an indication of the strike ending. Work is proceeding on the Avharves steadily by free labour. A steamer left on Saturday for the Gulf country, where supplies are running short, no steamer having visited the country for five Aveeks.

U.S. PRESIDENT BLAMED. (Received 26, 8.5 a.m.) New York, February 25. El Paso, Texas, reports that United States and Mexican secret operatives also Texan rangers, have issued a manifesto .blaming the President of the United States for causing all the troubles in Mexico, and a Latin-Ameri-can manifesto - Will "; be circulated throughout Northern Mexico with the object of stirring up feeling against ;the ]Americart' Government. THE' RIGHTS OF' THE; NATION. (Received 26, 8.5 a.m.) -r"~:~LondonpFobftrary • 25:" Mr Asquith, replying to Mr Field, Natioijajis^- on Dublin,’.‘h'i/'wad .uhMsld\to; , regfii’dv.fivourx»l)fy the suggestion that coalfields bo nationalised. rT if /The executive of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners’ Union has instructed the delegates 'to Tuesday’s conference to refuse to suspend notices. Mr Keir Hardie says that only concession of the men’s demands could effect a settlement. The miners were not going, to Mr Lldyd-George like Sending tro °P s implied that the miners were hooligans and blackguards.

The Lord Mayor of London presided at a ,pmferGime,pfyM;vyor» of the United being represented. The meeting passed a resolution that the claims of the cbihmuniiy 'but™ighb3oany conceivable difference dividing the negotiators.. ■. Several speakers urged that ■the. rights ofCthe nation as a third party should' be- heard. : ‘V,

THE THREATENED LOCK-OUT. (Received 26, 9.0 a.m.) London, February 25. An increasing number of large firms have notified their intention to suspend in the event of a strike, including the Chatham railway works at Ashford, the North-Western works at Crewe, the Glasgow steel works employing ten thousand hands, and the Welsh tinplate manufacturers employing thirty thousand. THE EFFECT IN FRANCE. . (Received 26, 9.0 a.m.) Paris, February 25. The strike threatens to 'paralyse many industries which largely roly on English coal.