LABOR TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 3 September 1910, Page 5

LABOR TROUBLES.

SOCIALISTS' IDEALS. WHEN CAPITALISM IS DEAD; By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received September 2, 10.30 p.m. Copenhagen, September 2. A second Socialist Congress resolved |hat unemployment would only disappear when capitalism disappeared, and demanded general compulsory insurance by the authorities against unemployment at the expense of the owners of the means of production. The majority of the British, American, French and Belgian delegates abstained from voting.

WELSH COLLIERS STRIKE. Received! September 2, 10.30 p.m. London, September 2, Tie men of several Welsh collieries lave ceased work with a view to compelling, non-unionists to join the Federation. Thirty thousand miners at i Rhondda Valley are tendering notices pvifchi the same object. SPANISH (DISAFFECTION SPREADS, j Received September 3, 1 a.m. " Madrid, September 2. There is a great strike at Saragossa, and the Labor Federation is discussing the advisability of proclaiming a general strike at Barcelona. MARTIAL LAW AT BILBAO. Received September 3, 12.30 a.m. Madrid, September 2. Martial law and the suspension of the constitution have been proclaimed in the Bilbao province, owing to reports that the strike is about to assume a revolutionary character. THE STRIKE ABOUT A GANGER. Received September 3, 12.30 a.m. Adelaide, September 2. The strike is spreading to the balance of the men employed on the railway construction work and also to the employees in the Government quarry, who came out to-day, making 400 idle. The Laborers' Union leaders state that if a settlement is not reached by Monday it is likely the repairers along the railways in the country willjoin. The Premier has left for a visit to i3ie far north.