INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 77, 21 September 1911, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

THE STRIKE IX IRELAND.

THE POSITION BECOMING SERIOUS.

Bv Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, September 19.

The executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railwaymen has arrived at Dublin, and are considering the position. A mass meeting of railwaymen at Dublin passed a resolution not further to submit to the 'degrading conditions, and demanded that the amalgamated executive call out 'British fellow-workers. Mr. Rimmer, the strike leader, states that the dispute is strictly confined to the question of handling the goods of firms employing non-unionists. Nine hundred steelworkers at Dowlais have struck for an increase in wa<res and recognition of the union. Only three trains on the Great Southern line, Ireland, ran to-day. Letters are greatly delayed, and the mails weTe not sent to England. Only, one-fourth the usual supply of butter has reached England. Prices in the Liverpool provision markets are Btiffer. No further Irish supplies are expected till the strike has ended. The amalgamated executive at Dublin has invited the railway manager to cooperate with them to effect a settlement.

A strike arose at the Great Southern terminus through two men refusing to handle timber consigned by a merchant whose employees were striking.

Newspaper*, including the Westminster Gazette, arc pointing out the impossibility of allowing Tailwaymcn to discriminate as to what goods shall be carried.

. TROOPS RESISTING STRIKERS. ROYAL ENGINEERS DRIVING TRAINS THREAT TO CALL OUT ALL RAILWAYMEN. Received 20, 11 p.m. London, September 20..

Irish companies are firmly resisting the strikers' demands, and decline an invitation to meet the Railway Servants' Association executive. The latter thereupon resolved that unless the companies ceased penalising the men for refusing to handle blackleg goods, they would call out all tne Irish railwaymen. A number of men have been imported from Manchester to fill the Kingsbridge strikers' places. They yielded to the persuasion of pickets, with the exception of nine whom the police escorted. Large drafts of troops are ready for emergencies.

„ The Royal Engineers are engaged in driving passenger trains. Goods traffic is suspended.

The South-Eastern is the only company which refused to accept blackleg goods. Its service is untouched.

Three Wexford iron founders locked out their employees, and another firm decided that as some of their employees had joined the Transport Workers' Union, they would employ non-unionists.

The price of provisions is rising. THE DISCONTENT JUSTIFIED. A BISHOP'S OPINION. Received 20, 10 p.m. London, September 20. Bishop C.ore, in a farewell letter on departing from Birmingham, said he believed the industrial discontent was justified. Christians were not justified in tolerating the conditions of life and labor under which the masses were living, and had no right to say that these conditions were irremediable.

RECOGNITION" OF UNION DESIRED. Received 20, 10 p.m. London, September 20. The railwaymen at Waterford demand the recognition of their union as a basis of settlement. They decline to handle non union goods. A DISPUTE SETTLED. Received 21, 12.30 a.m. London, September 20.

The boilermakers' dispute at Lincoln has been settled on a two years' basis with a shilling a week advance and 2 per cent, increase on piece rates. lIETTON COLLIERY. Received 20, 11 p.m. Sydney, September 11. The Hetton colliery wheelers resolved to resume work on the old conditions tomorrow. THREATS BY UNIONISTS. Melbourne, September 20. guilders' laborers on all the big city jobs have struck, demanding lod an hour. The unionists threaten to deal with anybody accepting less. THE WALLSEND WIIEELERS. Sydney, September 20. The Wallsend wheelers still decline to resume work. Other mines, however, arc starting, and the position is more hopeful.