INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 162, 8 January 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

OOAL OWNERS PROTEST. VAST STRIKE FORESHADOWED. STOPPING AT NOTHING. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 8. 12.20 a.m. London, January 6. The South Wales coal-owners protested against the South Wales Miners' Federation's proposad ballot respecting a general strike, as a violation of the 1910 agreement, which is not terminable Until 1913. Mr. Mabon states that tne result of the ballot will probably turn idle one million miners, and 730,000 tons of coal daily wiil be withdrawn from the market. The policy of stopping at nothing will involve Joss of life and property, to which previous struggles were a flea bite. It will also provide s great opportunity to Americans to export coal to Britain. The Chronicle says some arrangement could have been nade for securing to the miners who were working in bad places a fair wage, but the policy was not to, .the men who lately came to the'front in the councils of the Miners'Yederation. They had been cartied off their feet by a wave of syndicalism, and want a general stoppage. MINERS RECEIVE AN ADVANCE. Received 8, 12.45 a.m. London, January 6. The Northumberland coal owners have granted the miners an advance of I'A per cent. THAMES IRONWORKS. Received 7, 5.5 p.m. ._ , _ London, January (J. A meeting of workers in the Thames Ironworks resolved not to work fiftythree hours weekly 1 ., -* SHIPYARDS STRIKE SPREADS. Received 8, 12.30 ajn. London, aJnuary 6. The~sttike in the shipyards against discharge notes is spreading in the north. Employers state that without discharge* tu>£es- men leave work unfinished. :»?( .. —— COTTON TRADE DISPUTE. London, January 5. Sir G. R. Askwith is continuing his . conferences in Lancashire. The first few weeks' lockout pay cost the local Weavers' Union £75,000. Few onions are able to stand the strain for more than a month. Some have been urging that bankruptcy will come in a ifortn^lk! THE COTTON TRADE DISPUTE. Received 8, 12.20 ajn. London January 6. Sir E. Askwith's conferences with the two parties in the cotton trade trouble have adjourned to enable suggestions to be made with a view to settling the nonunionists question submitted by the respective sides. MASTERS AND WEAVERS. deceived 8. 12.20 a.m. London. January 6. The masters have declined the weavers' demand for a 5 per cent, advance. . WHARF TROUBLES. Melbourne, January 6. A conference has been arranged between employers and wharf laborers for Monday, and meantime work proceeds. Sydney, January 6. Uneasiness prevails as to the position at the coastal and inter-State wharves. The men persist in ceasing work half an hour earlier than the award provides, and the only overtime is worked by the companies' permanent staffs. Much congestion and delay is the result.