INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 75, 19 September 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

STRIKES IN IRELAND AND ENGLAND BOYCOTTING LABOR EXCHANGES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, London, September 17. Timbermen at Dublin have struck on account of the masters declining to recognise the Irish Transport Workers' Union. Four hundred men in the goods department of the Great Southern and Western Railway, at Kingsbridge Street Station, have struck, declining to handle timber. The postal employees campaign for the redress of grievances and increase of pay, has been inaugurated at Glasgow, and is being widely supported. The condition of the service was declared to be intolerable, and a resolution was passed urging the appointment of a committee of the House of Commons to hold an enquiry. Twelve hundred miners struck at Bristol, demanding that the same increases should be granted ■ as in the. Somerset area.

The unemployed at Leicester are boycotting the labor exchanges on the ground that men are sent after positions already filled, or several men are sent to one job, which is given to the man accepting the lowest wage.

THE IRISH RAILWAYS. GENERAL STOPPAGE FEARED. Received 18, 11.10 p.m. London, September 18. A general railway stoppage in Ireland is threatened. The porters struck at Limerick. Troops are being held in readiness at Dublin. SEAPIT WHEELERS RESUME. Received 18, 11.10 p.m. London, September 18. A meeting of Seapit wheelers decided to withdraw their notices, leaving the board to settle the grievances. The pit continues working. STRIKES IN SPAIN. Madrid, September 17. The Labor Federation at Saragassa struck in sympathy with the Bilbao men. The strikes at Oviedo and Malaga have ended. AUSTRALIAN WHEELERS' STRIKE. Sydney, September. 18. The wheelers' notices at the New Lambton pits expired to-day, adding largely to the thousand miners already idle at Newcastle. Trouble threatens other collieries in the near future. WHEAT HANDLERS' TROUBLE. Received IS, 11.10 p.m. Sydney, Last Night. A hitch has occurred in connection with the wheat handlers' settlement. Shippers agreed to an increase in the handling rates, but the stevedores refused the increases. Loading has not been resumed.