INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 84, 29 September 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

THE STRIKE IN IRELAND. EFFORTS AT SETTLEMENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 28, 10 p.m. London, September 28. Despite '.he absence of cargoes, the Great Western Railway is maintaining a steamboat service between Fishguard and Rosslare. The daily loss is .£440. Efforts are being made to settle on a basis of eliminating timber and allowing the railways to adjust the differences with the railwaymen, 'apart from the Transporters' Union. The Amalgamated Railwaymen suggest that they relinquish boycotting blacklegs and companies who reinstate strikers. Three hundred and forty men employed at the flreat Southern's locomotive works at Limerick have been discharged. London. September 27. There is an improved railway service in Ireland. The holders-on in the Clyde shipbuilding works have resumed work pending a national conference of holders-on and rivetters. A PARALYSING STRIKE. WHAT MAY HAPPEN. Received 29, 12.10 a.m. London, September 28. Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., speaking at Mountain Ash, declared that unless the railwaymen'* demands were adjusted there would be a strike paralysing every line in Britain. If there was going to be trouble in the mines and railways it was advisable that both should strike together throughout the kingdom. Two days would suffice to secure for the colliers eight shillings a day minimum, and for railwaymen a reasonable living wage. - > THE POSITION AT LITHGOW. Sydney, September 28. The position at Lithgow is unchanged. Any prospect for a peaceful settlement now depends on the action of tbc Government, which proposes to summon a ! conference. Numbers of non-unionists who were, seeking work at Lithgow have been induced not to work.

THE HEWING RATE. Sydney, September 28. The .southern colliery proprietors announce that no reduction in the hewing rate is at present contemplated. MT. LYELL STRIKE. Hobait, September 28. The Mt. Lyell strike is extending. The moulders have ceased work, and the foundry has been closed. A meeting of wharf laborers at Strahan decided not to handle any nonunion ore or copper from the mines. Steamers at present loading will be served, but only general cargo and union ore will be handled for subsequent vessels. The directors are firm in their intention to close the mines until the dispute is settled. The other side proposes to invoke the Arbitration Court. The waterside workers refused to handle the cargoes of the steamers Wareata, Tnrea and Marrawah, owing to the owner employing non-unionist crews. DUBLIN BAKERS' STRIKE. London, September 27. Dublin bakers have struck for an increase of a shilling n week.