LABOR UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 325, 12 June 1911, Page 5

LABOR UNREST.

ELY PIT DISPUTE. AN ENGINEERS' LEVY. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received 11, 5v5 p.m. London, June 10. A mass meeting of strikers at Glamorgan decided that neither Mabon, Watts, nor Morgan shall participate in further negotiations in connection with the Ely pit dispute. By ballot, the Amalgamated Society ofEngineers decided to levy f'-nence per head to support the strikers' The South Wales levy w!II raise £2600 for the strike fund. COAL PORTERS STRIKE. Received 11, 5.5 p.m. London, June 10. The coal porters' strike at Southampton is hampering shipping.

THE WAIIII TROUBLE. By Telegraph.— Pr»« Waihi, Saturday. The following resolution, unanimously passed at a mass meeting of miners on Wednesday hist, has now been officially supplied:— That in view of the uncompromising attitude adopted by the mining companies' representatives at the conference yesterday, and your delegates having exhausted all efforts to "effect reasonable concessions at the said conference, we immediately hand over the question to the Xew Zealand Federation of Labor. That in view of undue criticism levelled against the policy of the union by irresponsible persons and the effort to form a scab union, this mass meeting of Waihi Miners and Workers' Union express their confidence in the union officials and the policy of the Xew Zealand Federation of Labor. The "scab union" refers to the union that was in course of formation for registration under the Arbitration Act.