INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 348, 26 March 1910, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

COAL STRIKE IN WALES IMMINENT. Hy Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright Received March 24, 10.25 p.m. London, March 24. Delegates representing fifteen thousand Welsh miners demanded that the Miners' Federation of Britain call a general strike. The only possibility of averting a strike on Ist April is the intervention of the Board of Trade. Representatives of the men meet Mr. Sydney Buxton to-day. THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION COURT. Received March 25, 5 p.m. Melbourne, March 24. Mr Justice Higgins gave his decision in the Federal Arbitration Court enginedrivers'"" dispute, practically the outcome of the Newcastle strike. The Judge found that the matter was brought before him not because the claimants had the same dispute in three States, out because the New South Wales men despaired of justice from New South Wales boards, and in order to come <mfore the Federal Court, got the men of the other States to subscribe to their demands. That, he ventured to say, was not the idea of settling disputes beyond one State. The employer in this case had shown no desire to conciliate the men. If circumstances otherwise showed that conciliatory action was desired, and that the employers had obtained but a pyrotic victory, they had only themselves to blame. They were suffering from a bewildering number of boards in New South Wales, with a bewildering crossing of functions. Apart from the question of jurisdiction, he thought further proceedings were not necessary or justifiable in the public interests', and he therefore refused to, adjudicate.