INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 83, 28 September 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

STRIKES AND RIOTS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, September 26. Five hundred coal porters and dock hands at Deptford have struck. Tlie strike among the coal porters and dockers at Deptford is alleged to be due to the dockowners not complying with the recent award. The dockers elsewhere have shown a disinclination to handle goods from "infected" areas. There has been rioting at Swansea, where the waggon workers are on strike. A crowd at midnight invaded the works, smashing the contents. Women urged drunken men, stripped to the waist, to assault the caretakers. The police made a baton charge, and the crowd retaliated with stones: Ten policemen were injured, but order was restored.

A THREATENED STRIKE. Sydney, September 27. Troubles arc threatened in the South Coast collieries. Under the Wages Board award after the last strike, for the past six months the selling price of coal has been 8s 8d instead of 9s 2d. This involved a proportional reduction in the hewing rates, to which the miners were strongly averse. A special meeting of the Delegate Board has been called, and there is reason to believe the Board will vote against the reduction. A STATEMENT REBUTTED. Received 28, 1 a.m. Hobart, September 27. Little, the secretary of the Miners' Union, strongly denied the statement made by Mr. Deakin in the Federal House of Parliament that the Labor Party had brought about the Mt. Lyell strike. Both sides, he .said, tried to avoid the strike. He thinks the strike will not be of long duration. The strike pay amounts to £2OOO weekly.