INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 35, 4 August 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE DOCKERS' STRIKE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, August 2. The shipowners are ready to submit the dockers' dispute to arbitration. There are 14,000 strikers in London. The strike was due to the employees of the Port of London authority receiving a rise to sevenpence per hour, xne shipping companies' employees, who have long received sevenpence, are now claiming an additional penny. The union officials did not desire to strike, but the rank and file are repudiating the officials' promise to submit the matter to arbitration. The Rippingham Grange, with 500 emigrants for Australia, is due to sail on Thursday, but owing to the London dockers' strike she is unable to complete loading.

A BIG MOVEMENT. Received 3, 10 p.m. London, August 3. At a meeting of dockers, Mr. Ben Tillet, M.P., announced that a strike committee for the of London was. forming, embracing every section of workers, who would co-operate with the National Transport Workers' Federation. A conference of employers and men will be held to-morrow.

DOCKERS' STRIKE IN RUSSIA. Received 3, 11.25 p.m. St. Petersburg, August 3. Twelve thousand dockers have struck, making idle two-thirds of the shipping. SUGAR WORKERS' STRIKE. Brisbane, August 3. Nine men, including a strike organiser, have been arrested. in connection with the disturbance at Childers, and three have been arrested at Cairns, as the outcome of the strikers' demonstration. The waterside workers are enforcing the decision not to handle non-union sugar. The cane-cutters' strike at Maclean has ended. The company has granted the men's demand.

ROYAL COMMISSION. Received 4, 12.35 a.m. Sydney, August 3. The general secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union has gone to Queensland to watch the interests of members and to take charge of their aspect of the sugar strike. Melbourne, August 3. Mr. Hughes stated he was not unfavorable to the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the sugar industry, with a special reference to the Queensland trouble.

TAKING THE PLACE OF STRIKERS. MEN DISSUADED FROM GOING. Received 3, 10 p.m. London, August 3. A large number have replied to the advertisement for men to work in the Queensland sugar mills. Mr.*Ryland, a Labor member of the Queensland Assembly, attended and urged the men not to go. The crowd then dispersed.

ENGINEERS DEMAND INCREASE. Received 4, 12.35 a.m. Melbourne, August 3. . The District Amalgamated Society of Engineers presented all city firms and ' Tailway commissioners with a demand for an increase in pay of one shilling a day.

WHARF LABORERS' HOURS. Sydney, August 3. The new agreement, between the Wharf Laborers' Union and the Steamship Owners' Federation is now operating. It reduces the working hours from 48 to 47 weekly, with extra pay for meal times and overtime after midday on Saturday.

THE LITHGOW STRIKE. Sydney, August 3. The Lithgow strike continues, pending a meeting of the Arbitration Board. HOBART CARTERS' STRIKE. Hobart, August 3. The carters' strike continues. The men will to-day consider the concessions offered by the employers.

FARM HANDS' DISPUTE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. A ballot of the Canterbury Agricultral and Pastoral Laborers' Union has been taken on the question of the submission of the dispute between the union and Canterbury Sheep-owners' Union and others, and has been agreed to by a large majority. A meeting will be held to confirm* the ballot on Monday.

WOOL HANDS' DISPUTE. / Dunedin, Last Night. At a meeting of the Otago and Southland Sheepowners' Association to-day the industrial disputes relating to wool classers and general farm hands were considered, and it was decided to ask the New Zealand Sheep-owners' Federation to take the matter up with a view to o'ettin" a Dominion award in such case. Messrs. J. Begg, J. C. Nicholls and G. McKenzie were appointed to the New Zealand Sheep-owners' Executive.