INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 65, 12 March 1912, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE STRENGTH OF THE PURSE

(Received 12, 10.0 a.m.)

London, March 11

Mr G. W. Barnes, at Croydon, said he was not going to dictate to the miners, who knew the strength of public opinion and the strength of their own pnrSe, hut no body of men should bo a law unto themselves.

A FURTHER CONFERENCE

(Received 12, 12.30 p.m.)

London, March 11

Careful investigation shows that 844,000 miners and 441,960 industrial ■workers have been rendered idle by the strike, also many thousands 'indirectly.

Hie Board of Trade has authorised fifteen persons in excess in railway carriages and five in omnibuses in London.

Two hundred thousand tons of shipping is rendered idle on the* Tyne. Avantage is being taken to get the vessels into proper trim.

A conference of miners agreed to meet the coal owners for free discussion of the whole situation without prejudice, but there must lie an understanding that the principle of the minimum wage will be excluded from the discussion.

THE GERM!AN TROUBLE

(Received 12, 12.30 p.m.)

Berlin, March 11

The miners at Ruhr failed to enlist non-unionists in tlie strike everywhere which, therefore, is only partial. At Dartrnund sixty per cent have struck.

A LONG-STANDING STRIKE

(Received 12, 10.50 a.m.), Sydney, March 12,

Indications point to the protracted Lithgow strike drawing to a close. A basis of settlement has been reached which, will be placed before the men.