INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 84, 6 April 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE ENGLISH COAL STRIKE. (By Electric '''olograph. —Copyright.) (United Press Association.i London, April 1. The Prince of "Wales lias given £SOO to the strike relief fund. Thirty thousand jute workers have been locked out in Dundee, owing! to the refusal of 5000 to return after a futile strike for an increase cf wages. There is every indication that the Miners' Federation will declare the strike off to-day. The decrease of railway business through the strike is £2,500,000. The owners and men in Lancashire and ' South Wales have appointed boards to fix a minimum wage. There has been additional resumption in Scotland. The miners in North Staffordshire and Walsall will resume. work today. The miners' war-chest in Durham, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Nottingham still shows £750,000. The official returns for the strike ballot show: For resumption 201,013, against 244,011. There is no,, rule covering the matter, but as there h not a two-thirds majority the executive suggests that the national conference called for Saturday should recommend a resumption of work. Sir W. Hall-Jones has received £llBO, chiefly from Otago to be distributed among women and children suffering from the strike in Cardiff, Middlcsbro, Stockton, Grimsby, Stoke, Chesterfield, Leeds and other centres of distress. Ashton announces that the necessary two-thirds majority for continuing the strike has not been obtained. A mass meeting of South Wales surfacemen decided not to resume work until their demands were concoded. The president denounced the miners' leaders for despising their claims. A. CLOSE SHIA.VE. (Received 0, 8.5 a.m.) London, April 5. It is understood that the executive committee's decision met the strongest opposiion. Only Mr Enoch Edwards' appeal for moderation turned the scale in favour of the committee's recommendation at the national conference against resumption. NEW ZEALAND DONATIONS. Hastings, April 5. Fifty pounds has been contributed to the Tribune fund for the relief of the . striker-victims : -in - Great -Britain, Ma- fcf. P. Donnelly has also given the Mayor £IOOO for the same object. IMPORTATION OF WOMEN. Adelaide, April 4. The Shortage of Labour • Commission recommends the importation" of •'6lO tiv.om.en for different trades, and twenty tailors. It is of opinion that no female factory operatives should be imported unless guaranteed a minimum wage of 27s 6d weekly. EMPLOYMENT OF STRIKERS. Brisbane, April 4. ..< The Government lias adopted the recommendations of the Board of Enquiry, re employing strikers,, but oiv no account will loyal men. be interfered with. MELBOURNE COAL STRIKE. Melbourne, April 5. The trouble in the State coal mine has left a thousand workers idle. THE LITHGOW STRIKE. (Received 6, 9.15 a.m.) Sydney, April 6. At a meeting of Lithgow strikers to consider the question of resumption of work a section was strongly against resuming until two non-unionists were removed. A ballott will be taken.