SWEDISH STRIKE RESUMED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 203, 1 October 1909, Page 2

SWEDISH STRIKE RESUMED.

FAILURE OF .NEGOTIATION'S. By Cable.—Prcßs Association.—Copyright Stockholm, September 29. The Swedish Government's negotiation!! between the Employers' Association and the Trades Union hare failed. Sixty thousand men are still Idle. The lailurn of the negotiations will entail much suffering.

NEWS BY MAIL. Stockholm, August 7. Tourists arc leaving Sweden in crowds, peaceable, citizens are buying revolver*, whilo heated meetings of workmen are held at the street corners. For the general strike has begun. The decreo of the trado unions, who wished to call out 200,000 members in reply to a lock-out by the masters of 80,000 workers of all trades, has not been universally obeyed. Not more th;i» a quarter of the 200,000 unionists hava, it is believed, at present left work. The grievance of tho masters is that the unions do not keep to agreements, and of the unions that all the masters have formed a vast federation to beat down wages.

I The position for the public, however, is already inconvenient and serious enough. Housowivea have during the past three days been laying in stocks of provisions as though (or a siege. The shops and markets were beleaguer* 1, Now the streets arc lifeless and for the most part deserted. The well-to-do and middle classes have left for the country and abroad. Yesterday the Continental train Included no fewer than twelve sleeping-cars. *

The banks and chief buildings are guarded by troops. Crowds anxious for news from tho provinces are waiting round the fiowspapcr offices. A funeral passes, but there is onlv & single mourning, coach. The undertakers' men on strike will not Derail more. The difficulty of the bereaved h not finished—the gravediggere, too have i joined in the movemont. ' Early this morning a non-unidhirt baker was attacked and his bread UMet as ho made his rounds, but there have been no other Incidents. Watehmen ap. | pointed by the strikers patrol the neigh. borhood of workshops and factories, Despite their decision condemning the striko, 1200 tramway employee* to-day left work. The gas, waterworks and sewerage employees threaten to join un. less tho troops who are protecting the buildings and plant are withdrawn; The masters are determined sot to yield,- the men protest themeelrei equally firm. Ag yet the GoTemmeiit declines to intervene.