INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 112, 1 November 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

THE RAILWAY COMMISSION'S FINDINGS. TROUBLE LOOMING. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, October 30. Mr. Bellamy, in a speech at Glasgow, declared that the railwayman's agitation was just beginning to be a twentyfour hours' job. Next time he was going to fight for direct collective bargaining.

The railwaymen at Leeds, Chester, Northampton, Burton-on-Trent, Cardiff and Swansea are repudiating the com-

mission's findings. A railwaymen's meeting at Swansea demanded the resignation of Mr. Williams, ge'neral secretary of the union, as a member of the Industrial Council. Mr. Thomas, organising secretary of the Western District, at a meeting at Crewe, denied that the men's representatives were pledged to accept the findings. His advice to the managers would be to discuss the report with the men's representatives and eliminate the bad and adopt the good. This would prevent a disastrous strike. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, speaking at Manchester, said that unless grievances were properly discussed the public must be prepared for the consequences, namei| ly, the paralysis of the railway service. The Congress of the National Free Labor Association, representing 800,000 workmen, has opened in London. It was resolved: "That in view of the many acts of violence during the recent strike it is essential to repeal the Trades Disputes Act, which trade union pickets regard as an excuse for industrial terrorism." Questioned regarding the memorial from the employers' parliamentary councils protesting against the tyranny of picketing, Mr. Asquith said the Government was considering the matter. The law was not inadequate to stop intimidating, but the difficulties were due to the impossibility of procuring evidence. CLERKS' DISPUTE. Sydney, October 31. The Clerks' Union has filed an ap. plication to the Wages Board claiming £3 a week of 39 hours. THE MT. LYELL DISPUTE. Melbourne, October 31. The Mt. Lyell strike is still going on. The company demands that the men should return unconditionally. If they do it will grant a conference. The men decline to return until the question of White is disposed of satisfactorily.