LABOUR TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3570, 4 September 1920, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

NEW SOUTH WALES MINERS. 1 ' REPUDIATION OF TRIBUNAL. Received 10.35 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. The HLawarra coalminers passed a resolution repudiating i’k coal triounal at present sitting in Sydney, and urging its representative to withdraw, j I ORGANISING IN JAPAN. Received 9.5 a.m. TOKIO, Sept. 3. i The Labour organisations have called a general meeting for the purpose of forming ;a National Labour Association, with economic and political aims. ENGINEERING DISPUTE. Received 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 3. Efforts to avert the engineering dispute have failed, and the lockout begins on Saturday. Received 9.20 a.m, LONDON, Sept. 3. In view of the number of engineers depending on the electrical workers, it is estimated that a million 'and ahalf will be agectcd if the Tatter are locked out. , *

THE MINING CRISIS. NO HOPE OF MEDIATION. ■* Receiyed 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 3. The Miners’ Conference las. cd only a quarter or an hour. It is unofficially announced that there is no hope of mediation from the Triple AllianCe, which has decided to stand by the j minors. Mr. Adamson, M.P., says: “Gef in coal; it is going to ns a big strike.” The next, possibility of a move in the direction of a settlement is the Trades Union Congress, which meets at Portsmouth on Monday. The public generally believe that, .a strike will not eventuate, especially as there is (a three weeks’ interval for negotiations. Received 9.20 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 3. | It is estimated that the coal strike ' will throw idle a million and a-half | workers in other industries in the first I week, 2,150,000 in tne second week, and 2,643,000 in the third week. WORKERS SEIZE FACTORIES. WIDESPREAD TROUBLE IN ITALY Received 9.20 a.m. LONDON. Sept. 3. The Daily Chronicle’s Milan correspondent says the factory seizing! movement is spreading throughout- Italy. Thousands of workers stormed the gates and scaled the walls of the" Fiat motor works at Turin, which employ ten thousand hands. The workers also occupied the machinery shops of twenty o. her well known automobile firms in Northern Italy. Fortunately, a majority of the companies had taken precautions to transfer money and valuables in the night fror* their own siPongroom to the banns. Red flags were hoisted o the buildings occupied. The industrial works seized in Rome and Naples are chiefly' engaged in making tramcars, electrical apparatus, and armaments. The Workmans’ Committees are exercising stern discipline, and have even constituted prisons inside the captured factories, wherein recalcitrant? arc punished. In some places the workmen are foregoing their lunches in' order to meet the military if an attempt is made to dislodge them, ■ The GovernmenT is averse from in- I tervening, bur Signor Cabriole, Minister of Labour, after consultation vfibh 'the Catholic (Labour organisations, proposed a formula of conciliation, whereby the workers shall take over the direct management oc the factories • hrough the formation of societies of skilled managers and cooperative companies among the men, who will pay the ’owners a. rental based on tlm cost of the plant.