LABOUR TROUBLES

Taihape Daily Times, 29 January 1919, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

unauthorised strikes. Received 9.10 a.m. LONDON, January 26. The most notable feature of the strikes is that all are unauthorised by Trades Unions loaders. They are mostly organised by shops committes. The Hon. E. S. Horne 13 not interfering because the Ministry of Labour must support the Trades’ Union Executive. RAILWAYMEN AND LLOYD GEORUE. STRONG DISSATISFACTION EXPRESSED.

Received 10.25 a.m

LONDON, January 27.

The Railwayman’s Conference in London to-day carried a resolution taking a serious view of the Premier’s so-called apathy respecting the railwayman’s demands for higher wages and improved working conditions, adding that if the Government desires to prevent a national stoppage on February the it must negotiate immediately.

POSITION IN BELFAST SERIOUS TOWN IN DARKNESS. Re&eived 10.25 a.m. LONDON, January 27. The position in Belfast is serious. The streets rare in darkness and candles are the only means, of lighting houses. Church services arc abandoned. In th’e hospitals where there are many soldiers the cooks are unable to prepare meals. Many industries are likely to be paralysed by Monday, including the spinningand weaving mills, and bakeries, shipbuilding, and engineering works. The strike iat Belfast, began quietly,, and forty thousand are out.

STRIKES IN BRITAIN. HUGE NUMBERS OP MEN IDLE; LONDON, January 27. There are 20,000 strikers on the Clyde and 4000 in Edinburgh. Nearly 100,000 are idle in Belfast. The strikers are demanding a 44 hour week. Eighteen thousand ship repairers in Loudon are striking in support of a demand for 15 shillings, making a minimum of £5 weekly. The strikes, have bro.ug.ht to a standstill work at the docks in Cardiff, Newport and Swansea.

The Clyde strikers have adopted a resolution not to pay rents or income tax until a settlement lias been reached.

The boilermakers, shipbuilders, and blacksmiths, after a fresli interview with Mr. Horne, decided to X'ecommcnd calling a meeting of the full joint negotiation committee, and' a conference of the unions with a view of obtaining a suspension of the ueonfirmed memorandum of December 24 and to’secure wages equal to those of the longer working week. Mr. Clynes strongly urges the holding of a thoroughly representative industrial round-table conference, to devise means to prevent strikes. Ho points out that any changes towards the betterment of any given trade should be considered in relation to claims which, as a result, would be inevitable in other occupations, and the relation of the human claims of the whole community. o