INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 87, 7 December 1912, Page 8

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE BAKERS MSTR IKE. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, December 0. The threatened strike by the operative bakers in Auckland lias been averted by the decision of the employers concerned to concede the demands of the men. They have made this con-' cession under protest, as a means of avoiding a dislocation of their business, and it is probable that the matter will be brought before the Court again for further consideration. THE TIMARU TROUBLE. Timaru, December 6. There is a good deal of excitement over work on the wharves. Two small steamers,, the John and the Storm, came in to-day. The unionists started on the Storm at 8 a.m., but left when Scott came to work, Another gang prepared to work the John, when ready at 1 p.m., but the stationmaster refused to allow the railwaymen to work with them, because other unionists had left the Storm. Both steamers were worked by men from the stores and railway men, who did the work quite well. The unionists claim that the stationmaster’s action re the John amounts to a lock-out. The s.s. Flora was to have loaded produce to-day, and came to the roadstead, but was ordered on.

THE OSBORNE BILL

London, December 6

A conference between a Parliamentary committee and the Trade Union Congress Management Committee of the General Federation and Labour Party’s executive, expressed dissatisfaction at the non-reversal of the Osborne judgment. It was decided not to accept the Reduction Bill in its present form, but to continue an entire Labour movement to decide the final attitude of the Labour Party.