INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 88, 4 October 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

THE STRIKES IN IRELAND. GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED, PITIABLE SCENES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 3, Id .20 p.m. London, October 3. The Amalgamated Executive at Dublin resolved to call a general strike of Irish transport workers unless the railway companies unconditionally reinstate the strikers. Pitiable scenes are being witnessed in the poorer quarters of the city. Large queues form at five in the morning outside the Co-operative Society's stores and bakers' shops, fruitlessly waiting to buy bread after regular customers have been supplied. The police protect the vans to prevent looting. IRISH STRIKERS RESUME. London, October 2. Locomotive hands, signalmen and others at Waterford have resumed work, and the services will recommence to-

morrow. MT. LYELL DISPUTE. Melbourne, October 3. The Amalgamated Mine Employees' Association has lodged a claim with the Federal Registrar for a compulsory conference in connection with the Mt. Lyell dispute. Received 4, 1 a.m. Melbourne, October 3. ■Negotiations with representatives of the Lyell Company and employees indicate that if the men waive the reinstatement of the dismissed man the company are practically ready to concede everything else. SHIPPING AWARDS. Melbourne, October 3. The Federal Arbitration Court has commenced hearing the seamen's claims against the Steamship Owners' Association. The demands are; Boatswains £0 per month, A.B.'s £B, lamp trimmers £9, ordinary seamen £O, donkeymen £ll, greasers £lO, and runners£B, four hours on duty and eight off when at sea is claimed. SAUSAGE WORKERS STRIKE. Received 3, 9.20 p.m. Melbourne, October 2. Two hundred sausage case workers struck for an increase of two shillings weekly.