LABOUR TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 18 May 1917, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

IN VARIOUS CENTRES IN ENGLAND. Received 9.25 a.m. LONDON, May 17. The London ’bus strike is unchanged. Many engineers have resumed, but Liverpool balloted in favour of continuing the strike. Some hundreds have struck at Nottingham. On the other hand Barlows, Sheffield, voted in favour of continuing work. The Manchester men are largely returning. COALITION MINISTRY AGREED TO LITTLE HOPE OF OFFENSIVE WARFARE LONDON, May 17. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Fetrograd correspondent says an extraordinai\ meeting of the Council of Workers’ and Soldiers’ delegates decided by 41 votes to 19 in favour of a Coalition Ministry on the following conditions

| (1) Foreign policy with the chief | aim to make the earliest possible con--1 elusion of a general peace without anj vexation or indemnity and the right of | all nationalities to determine their own I /g) Decisive mcfisuros tor tnc rcconst motion of the army on a democratic basis to strengthen the fighting force in defence of liberty. (3) Radical social, economic and financial reforms (4) The earliest possible convention of a constituent assembly in Petrograd. (5) Socialists’ representatives in the Provisional Government to be responsible to the Council of Workmen and Soldiers’ delegates. CAUSE OF PREMIER’S resignation. PETROGRAD, May 1(5. The immediate cause of M. MilinIcofTs. resignation was a difference of views between himselt and the Provisional Government on the question of the reorganisation of the Cabinet.