INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 32, 1 October 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE I .WAV

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) t L llited I’reßS Association.) In e\v York, September 30. Because three workers were gaoled on i\ cilargo oi killing two men cuiring a winter strike at balem, the industrial Workers oi the World, without permission, par.,ded in Lawrence, iMas-sac.ui-sotts. The police interferon, and a tight with knives and clubs ensued. Two constables were stabbed, j (ij-oo workers wore arrested. Tbe mob freed their leader. j PROTEST AGAINST THE FEDERATION. London, September 29. In the anthracite district, in South Wales, the Miners’ Federation, with a mem'oorsuip of 18,000, has decided to quit the Federation and conduct its own affairs, as a protest against the Federation’s adoption of centralisation by the abolition of districts. WITHOUT CAUSE. Sydney, September 30. The Barrier Labour Federation has admitted that the municipal employees at Broken Hill wore called out without| cause. They explained that the men, had been misled. The strike has been; declared off. i “STRIKE NEVER SUCCESSFUL.” | London, September 13. Mr. Philip Snowden, the Socialist ALP., speaking at a meeting last night declared that the strike wouldi never be successful as a weapon for frequent and constant use by labour. Except in one or two instances, in which the circumstances were exceptional, there was no record of the workers having been successful in a strike against federated capital. Air. Snowden gave it as his opinion that the immediate future was likely to witness a great revival of political action, because recent strikes had in reality been failures, due to the intervention of Parliament. The cause of Labour not having been involved in disaster on those occasions was the effectiveness of political action. This was shown by the Workmen’s ComE Ration Act, under which £3,000,00.). been paid to the workers, which was three times more than the total in crease of wages that the workers received last year. The idea of the general strike, added Mr. Snowden, was of French origin, and was not likely to find favour in Britain.