INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 59, 5 March 1912, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

TROOPS IN READINESS

(By Electric Telegraph.—-C(3pyright.) (United Press Association.*

(Received 5, 11.15 a.in.) London, March -1

Trains sufficient to transport twenty thousand troops are ready at Aidershot for an .immediate start.

PREMIER DENIES SOCIALISM

(Received 5, 11.15 a.in.)

London, March 4

Replying-' to Mr Bon-ar Law, the Premier denied the .statement by Mr Davis, a strike delegate, that the Government would make .themselves responsible for a minimum wage lor all industries. Ho said he was not ■in the habit of having sly flirtations with Socialism. The obstacle to settlement was the amount of the minimum. The owners ,raised a -number ol formidable objections to the men’s schedule and urged that many pits would have to bo closed. It was impossible that the Government should ask Parliament to coerce owners into accepting the very figures of the minimum. Ho warned the miners ol the enormous responsibility of entering the course they bad determined on. The Government felt-compelled to pursue a vigorous examination of the figures given by both parties.

RAILWAY WORKERS’ TROUBLES

West port, March 5

A public meeting has been called to discuss the grievances of the, men in the Westport railway workshops.

CANCELLATION DENIED

Wellington, March 5

Mr Mori arty, secretary of the Furniture Workers’ Union, denies that the recent trades congress held in Dunedin advised cancellation muter the Arbitration Act. The congress upheld the measure and counselled the workers to retain their connection.