INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 23, 24 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE LITHGQW TROUBLE. (Received 21, 10 a.m.) Sydney, May 21. The Labour Council passed a resolution stating that the proposed one-day strike was calculated to prejudice the cause of the imprisoned men, and bring the whole industrial movement into contempt. It regrets that affiliated unions participating in the agitation before consulting the Council.

Mr Griffiths decided, after the late Royal Commission's findings, to have no dealing with Hoskins, but to allow Government contractors to use the firm's iron and steel after the most stringent tests. SATURDAY NIGHT WORK. (Received 21, 10.0 a.m.) Sydney, May 21. The butchers' shop assistants have decided not to work later than si:; on Saturday evenings, after the first of June. GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED. (Received 24, 9.5 a.m.) London, May 23. The transport workers have ordered a genera! strike. . THE DOCKERS' STRIKE. London, May 23. Sir Edward Clarke has been appointed to enquire into the London dockers' dispute. The lightermen partially unloaded the Australian cargoes of the Maloja and Demosthenes, and then raised objections that three non-unionists had been employed. Despite the orders of the dock authorities, ( they refused to continue.

Mr Gosling announced that the Transport Federation was taking the dispute out of the hands of the lightermen. He did not think that the Government could deal with a dispute which involved a life and death struggle over the question whether unionists should work with nonunionists. The Federation officials expect that 80,000 men will be striking by the end of the week.

A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. Wellington, Slay 23. At tho sitting of the Conciliation Council re the warehousemen's dispute sixteen trades wen 1 represented. The assessors for the employers declined to proceed in tho absence of complete representation of every trade. Efforts to reduce the number of trades affected failed, the employers' assessors suggesting that all employers cited sihould be supplied with Mil specific demands, these having been altered by the union prior to coming before the council to-day. The meeting adjourned accordingly. During tho discussion, Mr (J. Farland, secretary of the union, said that the employers 'attitude was a deliberate attempt to block tho union, "if we can't get at yon this way, we'll get at yon another way." "Mr Ballinger asked: "in what way?" Mi' Farland (significantly) "Never vnn mind "