MORE STRIKES THREATENED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 63, 5 September 1911, Page 5

MORE STRIKES THREATENED

DISCONTENT ON ALL SIDES. BRINGING NON-UNIONISTS TO HEEL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 4, 9.30 p.m. London, September 4. Mr. Hill, secretary of the Boilermakers' Society, addressing a demonstration, at Newcastle in connection with the Trade Union Congress, referred to the national shipyard agreement expiring in March, and declared that unless it was drastically amended ho would advise members not to approve of it for a further term. The Sheffield railwaymen resolved in favor of a strike unless two guards whom the Midland Company reduced in rank with a loss of 8s per week were reinstated. The Nortlh-Eastern Railwaymen held a great meeting at Darlington and initiated a movement to cease working with non-unionists with the view to compelling all to join the union. Mr. Williams, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, remarked that when the men approached the directors for improved conditions, they were taunted by the supposed contentment of non-unionists; yet the latter were eager to share the benefits secured by organised effort. Mr. Hudson, M.P., declared that now was the time to inform employers that non-unionists must not share the concessions to tell the men, "You must enter the union," The Durham Miners' Conference demanded a minimum wage for hewers of | seven shillings a day, and other classes of lahor proportionately; also, if necessary, to hold a ballot on the question of. a national strike. The Port of London authorities' dock police threaten to strike unless they are granted the same wages as dock laborers and ten hours a day. Samuel Ballance, a young policeman, who was brutally kicked during the Liverpool riots, died in the hospital. MINERS AND OWNERS TO CONFER. Received 4, 11.15 p.m. London, September 4. Advices from Cardiff state that the Coal Mining Association meete the Miners' Federation of Britain to discuss a minimum wage for working in abnormal places. EFFECT ON FREIGHTS. London, September 3. As the result of the strike, measurement freights to Australia have been raised half-a-crown from the 14th, excepting in the case of certain articles in which there is foreign competition to Sydney. WELSH MINERS GO OUT. London, September 3. Owing to the difficulty about the recognition of the unions, the Western Miners' Anthracite Association, at Swansea, has authorised notices in connection with five collieries, employing 1800 men. Six hundred men are idle from the same reason at the Great Mountain colliery. MINERS IDLE. Received C>, 12.15 a.m. Sydney, September !5. Twelve hundred miners are idle at Newcastle by the stoppage of the Wallsend, Hetton, Limington and Shortland pits, owing to claims for extra rates and other causes. The Seapit wheelers have also given notice demanding an increase.