INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6, 4 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

“TEAR THAT DIRTY RAG DOWN.” By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright United Press Association. New York, May 2. During a May Day meeting in Union Square the Socialists tore down the American flag and hoisted the red flag instead. The crowd howled, “Tear that dirty rag down!” The police ineffectually tided to interfere, hut were powerless. A LABOUR CASE. Greymouth, May 3. Mr Justice Deuniston, reserved his judgment in the case Blanche v. the Gerymouth Wharf Labourers’ Union, a claim for £3OO damages for loss of employment as foreman of the Union Company at Croymouth. Ho was awarded judgment for £75, with costs on the lowest scale. THE GRE EN~ISLAN D STRIKE. Dunedin, May 3. A meeting of representatives of the miners in the Green Island district was held to-night to consider the position in regard to the dispute at Christie’s mine, a resolution being unanimously passed pledging the meeting to stand solidly by the men on strike, and to take every step necessary to get relief for the men concerned. Mr Ridd, secretary of the Otago Coal Minors’ Union, states that if the dispute does not very quickly come to a head the New Zealand Federation of Labour will take charge, and all the men in the Green Island district would stand by their advice, and if 'they said “down tools,” there would not be a pick raised. The employers are standing by their determination not to go back on their position. BRITISH COMMISSION. (Received 4, 8.5 a.m.) London, May 3. The Times states that the Government has appointed a Cabinet committee to investigate the industrial unrest. OSBORNE JUDGMENT BILL. (Received 4, 8.5 a.m.) London, May 3. The Telegraph states that the Premier is pledged to try to carry the Osborne Judgment Bill this session.’ AMERICAN COAL MINERS, (Received 4, 8.5 a.m.) New York, May 3. i A tentative agreement providing a basis for settlement of the anthracite coal dispute was rejected, the mine workers refusing to accept the proposals. A hundred and seventy thousand men are still idle. A BIG INCREASE. (Received 4, 8.5 a.m.) New York, May 3. The Locomotive Firemen’s Union is now demanding an increase of the wages scale commensurate with that secured by engineers. Railroad managers declare that the men’s demands will mean an additional Jive millions sterling annually on the wages bill.