Labor War Ending

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 28 August 1911, Page 5

Labor War Ending

TOM MANX INTERVIEWEE. STRIKE STRENGTHENS LABOR ORGANISATION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, August 25. Tom Mann, interviewed in Liverpool, said he rejoiced that the various sections of transport workers for the first time had been brought into harmonious relations. The dominant consideration had been the betterment of the workers' conditions, and all old sectarian and political differences dividing them had been entirely dropped. The solidarity which had been characteristic throughout the fight remained intact in the hour of victory. The strike committee had more than quadrupled the organised workers in Liverpool. According to a correspondent the record of naturalisation papers shows that the Jews established in Glamorgan and <on the Monmouth border imported in recent years numbers of their foreign compatriots. The latter, beginning as ' pedlars, soon became shopkeepers and landlords. The populace was incensed against many Jews, under the pretext of the railway strike, raising the prices of perishables. t The newspaper Jewish World enquired and found that while the charges relating to' property owners exacting exorbitant rents and compelling tenants to buy furniture from them on the hire system were baseless as regards any considerable section of the Jews, they were only too well substantiated in some individual cases, hence a handle was provided for anti-Jewish demon-' titrations. The paper adds: "It behoves the Jew to deal drastically with members of his own race who constitute a danger to the Jewry." DESERTED FROM THE RANKS. A STORY FOR INVESTIGATION. London, August 26. Harold Spiers, belonging to fhe Worcester Regiment, was arrested at New Radnor on a charge of desertion. He declared that during the Llanelly riot he was ordered to shoot to kill a leader who was on a garden wall. He' refused and was arrested, but escaped and walked a hundred miles, living chiefly on nuts and apples. Spiers was handed over to the military authorities. "DEVILS LET LOOSE." London, August 25. Chief-Constable Coleman, captain of the Lincoln Fire Brigade, testified at the inquest on Constable Clay, who was killed at yesterday's fire, that when threats were made during Sunday's riots to murder him, Clay stuck to him throughout. Witness added that "four thousand people were throwing stones at the police and windows, like devils ! let loose." ' TRAMCAR WRECKERS SENT TO GAOL. London, August 25. Rioting continues in Bargold district. Two Jewish shops were completely wrecked at Senghenydd. Many Jewish families have fled from the Monmouth valleys to Cardiff. All the Liverpool strikers, excepting the dockers, have Tesumed work. The latter will start to-morrow, if all are permitted to return. A number of tramcar wreckers have been sentenced to from two to five months' imprisonment. A conference of marine engineers ut West Hartlepool decided to approach the shipowners for a general advance in wages. LEGISLATIVE REFORM URGED. Received 27, 5 p.m. London, August 26. The Leeds Chamber of Commerce has urged the Government to repeal the Trades Disputes Act and to revise the peaceful picketing law. SETTLEMENTS ARRIVED AT. LIVERPOOL LOCKOUT WITHDRAWN. A PERMANENT VOLUNTEER SUGGESTION. Received 27, 5 p.m. London, August 26. The tramway strike at London has been averted. The County Council's committee, by recognising the union, settles certain grievances, and managerially refers the others to a conciliation board. The lightermen's strike has been settled, and the shipowners at Liverpool have terminated the lockout, conditionally on all resuming; otherwise the lockout will be resumed. The dockers' union has given pledges not to support any wishing to disregard the agreement. Several London newspapers support the suggestion of a permanent volunteer league to carry on public services in the event of a great combined strike. A similar organisation in 1909 caused a general strike in Sweden to collapse. The Midland Railway Company presented loyalists with a week's pay besides their ordinary wages. A dozen baton charges were made at Bargoed and Gilfach to-day, and several were injured. Half a doeen premises were damaged. THE IRISH RAILWAY STRIKE. EXPENSIVE FOR A RACING CLUB. Received 27, 5 p.m. London, August 26. The stewards of the Irish Turf Club have decided that the circumstances of the Irish railway strike did not justify the Leopardstown Jockey Club's executive in abandoning the first day's meeting, and withdrew the club's license for the remainder of Ml. It also fined the clerk of the course £IOO for not taking adequate steps to consult the local stew-

ards, and ordered the club to defray all the expenses of owners, trainers and jockeys in connection with the races fixed for the 19th inst. EXTRAVAGANT LANGUAGE BY BEN TILLETT. Received 28, 12.5 a.m. London, August 27. A meeting of the Socialist Democratic party in Trafalgar Square denounced using the troops during the strike. ! Mr. Ben Tillett declared that if the Tory Government had so acted Mr. Lloyd-George would have wept tears of blood at the massacre of his countrymen, and Mr. Asquith would have declared that the Constitution was being prostituted by the Tories and capitalists. Mr. Churchill would have called up his father's ghost to wallop the Tories. Prominent Jews see nothing antiSemitic in the Welsh outburst. It is, they consider, purely hooliganism for the purpose of theft. There is a widespread demand in commercial circles for the repeal of the section of the Trades Disputes Act dealing with peaceful picketing, and the section relieving trades unions from responsibility for their acts.