First Edition. INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 77, 27 March 1912, Page 6

First Edition. INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

PREMIER IN CONFERENCE. (By Electric Telegrapn.—Copyright.) (United "ress Association.) (Received 26, 11.30 a.m.) ( London, March 25. , The• Premier had protracted conferences with the owners and ■ miners separately and a joint conference will probably be held to-morrow morning.. The minimum Bill has been further postponed. 1 The men’s leaders oppose the provision for an ultimate award by an independent chairman in the case of a district board not agreeing, as being tantamont to compti’lsory arbitration. The colliers at Chirk obtained the minimum wage and other North Wales colliers are offering the minjmum and inviting the men to resume. The Scottish minors are breaking away. A thousand resumed in Lanarkshire and hundreds elsewhere. STEAMER FREIGHTS RAISED, i (Received 26, 11.45 a.m.) / London, March 25. Owing to the coal strike, the Norddoutscher Lloyd and German-Austra-lian lines have raised freights to Australia and New Zealand by half a crowh per, thousand kilogrammes for first and second class goods, and a shilling for others. THREAT BY BUTCHERS. Gisborne, March 26. The operative butchers in the retail trade will strike at three this afternoon. Recently an award was. arranged on the Auckland scale. The mastery declined to sign, their objection being that Gisborne is a branch, of the Auckland district. The men intimate that unless the award is signed by three o’clock they will strike. The masters qre '‘sitting tight.” Thirty men are concerned. ■