INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 13, 7 September 1912, Page 2

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

LABOUR’S PATH. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, September 6. The Trade Unions are alarmed at their inability to compete with the great insurance societies in enrolling members under the Insurance Act. There are thirteen million insured workers, and the companies have already secured six and a-half million. Mr Ward, a member of the House of Commons, speaking at Newport, said that the unionists were cajoled and intimidated into joining the companies. The Trade Union Congress resolved to enquire into the alleged conspiracy between the companies and the employers. Other members denounced insurance as a curse to casual workers. Mr Ramsay McDonald, M.P., pleaded for more generous treatment of the party by Labour critics. The party’s path was very difficult. It had to tread between a Liberal morass on the one hand and a wild beast on the other. MINERS SNIPING AT NIGHT. New York, September 6. The strike of coal-miners at Charlestown, West Virginia, is assuming serious proportions. Martial law lias been proclaimed, and the militia is camped on the ground. There have been frequent exchanges of shots and several persons have been killed. Strikers are sniping the troops during the night.