INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 40, 9 August 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

A SERIOUS FERMENT. GENERAL STRIKE LIKELY. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. London, August 7. Although Sir A. K. Rollit's award favors the dockers, the dominant feature of the position is that no branch of the National Transport Workers' Federation will resume work until the demands of all sections are satisfied. The claims of the lightermen, stevedores, coal porters and carmen remain unsettled, and the Federation threatens to call out a hundred thousand men unless they are speedily satisfied.

There is a. serious ferment among railway workers at Liverpool and Manchester. A lockout of four thousand at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's locomotive works was followed by a strike of fourteen hundred goods porters for higher wages and shorter hours. This agitation is spreading to other companies. The London and Northwestern goods porters have struck at Liverpool, and a general paralysis of the railways is threatened. In all 12,000 men are now idle.

THE SUGAR STRIKE. THE TROUBLE SPREADING. ASSISTING QUEENSLAND STRIKERS. Received 8, 10.15 p.m. Sydney, August 8. The Trolley and Draymen's Union has decided not to handle sugar landed by the Aramic and now stacked on the wharf. More serious developments are expected when the Mintaro arrives tomorrow with 2000 tons of sugar. The secretary of the Wharf Laborers' Union states that as this was loaded by nonunionists, none of the waterside workers will handle it, and it is impossible for the Colonial Sugar Company to land such a large quantity with the aid of clerks and stevedores in the emergency. A conference of the delegates from the various unions interestedTiscussed the situation, and resolved to await the decision of the conference.

A meeting will be held at Brisbane tomorrow before formulating a plan of campaign. Sydney, August 8. The Labor Council has forwarded a further £3OO to the Brisbane strikers' fund. BOTH SIDES FIRM. Received fl, 12.30 a.m. Sydney, August 8. The waterside workers are determined not to handle the non-union sugar. The Sugar Company is equally determined to bring sugar to southern ports. The position is considered ominous. A Brisbane wire reports that the Mintara has put back there after being nineteen hours out.