INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 12 April 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE ENGLISH COAL SI RIKE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.* London, April 10. Mr. L. 6. Clrozza Money fabled a motion demanding puolic control of coal mines and the establishment of a power commission. The House was counted out. Half a million miners are now working. The chief hitch is ih South Wales, where the Miners' hederat.on conferred with the enginemc-n and urged tnem to resume work. The enginemen refused, and the Federation tiien issued a manifesto to the members that while not directing colliers to fill .engineers' places they would place no difficulties in the way of colliery managers secur.ng efficient men from the miners' ranks.'

The revolt against the Federation is spreading. In South Lancashire, crowds, chiefly 3 oaths and unmarried men, are visiting the pits and compelling the workers to cease work. Several serious collisions with the police have occurred, and baton charges were frequent. Twenty thousand miners at Wigan are anxious to resume work, but Mere forced to stop, fearing the hooligans Mould box the miners within the pits. The owners at Reighton and Tyldcsley have re-closed their pits, believing it is unsafe -to -work the mines in the present destructive mood of the strikers. SOUTHLAND'S CONTRIBUTION. Invercargili, April 11. iThc Southland Times' fund in aid of the starving strike children has reached £2OO. THE USE OF MILITARY. London April 11. In the House of Commons, during a discussion on the Army Annual Bill. Mr. Keir Hardie moved an amendment to the effect that a recruit should have the right, under contract, to refuse to assist a .civil power curing trade disputes. He stated that many youths were 1 not enlisting because they might have to hre on. their relatives and comrades. It was cruel that lads, as soldiers, should believe that they -were engaged to.shoot strikers. The amendment was rejected by 163. to 23. SUPPLY AND DEMAND. London, April 1.1. The Bishop of Oxford state:; that -wages will no longer settle themselves by tiie law of supply and demand. A proper basis of the reconstruction of society is the principle that adequate payment for labour should be a first charge upon industry. A permanent standard wage would doubtless entail a standard of efficiency in the worker; COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS ~, ' . Wellington, April 11. Amendments to_ the Workers' Compensation for Acc ; dents Act were discussed at the Trades and . Labour Councils' Conference to-day. It was resolved that the Act be amended in the'direction of nullifying any agreement, that may be entered into with any insurance company and any person entitled to compensation. Several speakers stated that frequently works's I were induced by representatives of insurance companies to sign away' part of their rights. It was also agreed that the Act should be amended to take away the power from the Judge which allows him to withhold, compensation unless a patient.submits to an anaesthetic for an operation. A further motion was passed as follows: "That in the opinion cf this conference the whole of the insurance business in connection with the Workers' Compensation Act should be taken over by the State." THE UNITY SCHEME. Wellington? April 11. The combined labour conference tonight adopted the unity scheme, and approved of the constitution brought down, excepting the elective executive. THE WESTPORT DEADLOCK. We'stport, April 11. The deadlock at the West-port Coal Company's Denniston mines contmues Attempts to come to an amicable settlement to-day proved abortive. The men mention that firemen have been employed for the last four or five year? and it has only lately been decided to do away with them. They consider it unsafe for a man to be in charge of engines at night with no one else in attendance. Another meeting is being held to-morrow. Mr. Dowgray, one of the executive of the Federation of Labour, i« proceeding to Denniston in the morning to try and arrive at an amicable settlement of the matter in dispute., AMERICAN COAL STRIKE. (Received 12, 8.25 a.m.) New York, April 11. There are bright prospects of the settlement of the anthracite coal strike. MILITARY OPERATIONS (Received 12, 10.10 a.m.) London, April 11. Owing to intimidation in Lancashire 030 Fusiliers have arrived at Leigh and five hundred Suffolks and three j hundred of the Sixteenth Lancers ai Wigan. i The executive of the Cardiff, Penarth and Barry coal trimmers denounced Mr Hartshorn's extravagant language as detrimental to the best interests of the community. ARBITRATION'S FAILURE. (Received 12, 9. 45 a.m.,) London, April 11. Mr Waddell, of Sydney, in a letter to the Times, commenting on the statement by Mr Harvey that arbitration had been a failure in Australia, says Mr Harvey told the naked truth. Human ingenuity never devised a fairer tribunal than the Wages Board, yet nearly all the larger unions flouted the law. Anyone would be blind if he believed arbitration -was otherwise than a gigantic failure in Australia. Arbitration legislation would bo scattered like chaff if depression came. The most hopeful indication, he says, is the growing public feeling against tyranous unionism.