LABOUR TROUBLES

Taihape Daily Times, 3 February 1919, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

THE GLASGOW STRIKES.

APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT,

LONDON, January 31

The Press Bureau states that the Lord Provost of Glasgow, telegraphed to the Government stating that a deputation appointed by a large meeting requested him to urge the Government to intervene with the employers to secure ia. forty-hour week without any reduction in wages. The deputation , stated that constitutional methods had been pursued hitherto, but failing tiro Government’s consideration of the present request, any other methods would "be adopted likely to advance their cause.

Mr. Bonar Law stated that the dispute would be dealt with by the employers and the duly elected trades union representatives. The Government was therefore unable to intervene. Such action would only undermine the (authority of the men’s chosen representatives and destroy cooperations between the employers and the employed, on which the hope of industrial peace depended. The representatives of the railway, executive and the committee of the Railwaymen’s Union have signed an agreement establishing the principle of an eight-hour day.

RAILWAY EIGHT-HOUR DAY,

Received 11.30 a.m,

LONDON, January 31. The railway agreement stipulates the eight-hour day is not to induemeal time.

GRAVE STRIKES IN PERU,

Received 9.30 a.m

NEW YORK, January 31

Despatches from Lima sjayp the strikers are roiting in northern Peru, and w,cr,e fired on by troops, several being killed. There are .strikes at Trujillo Salavony. Despatches from Santiago say the strike situation at Antofagasta is grave, and troops have been dispatched there.