INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 12 January 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

WOOLOOMBEBS RESUME. MINIMUM WAGE RESISTED. nox-umonist¥ounded OUT. 8y Cable—P*m Association—Copyright Received 12, 12.5 a.m. London, January 11. The wookombers have decided to resome work on the masters' terms. The Northumberland coal owners, in a manifesto, declare that to fix a minimum wage, irrespective of work performed, is impracticable, and they are unable to concede it, believing payment should be proportionately to -work performed.

Mr. Enoch Edwards is hepeful of a solution of the dispute, and denies the existence of an agreement for a simultaneous strike in Germany. Miss Bury, a non-unionist weaver, was bounded out of Great Harwood, and hiS «ffigy burned. The strike at Great Harwood was due to her employment. A HUGE STRIKE THREATENED. London, January 10. Mr. C. Fenwick, M.P.. at a meeting of Northumberland miners, said he feared that in the midst of the present unrest the men were being carried away by mere phrases. Mr. Haslam, M.P. for Chesterfield, told an interviewer that the Derby Miners' Association was anxious to avoid a strike, and had reduced its demands considerably; nevertheless appearances threatened one of the biggest struggles) ever known. The first million men would go out, and they would be followed by another million. THE COTTON LOCK-OUT. London, January 10. The Pall ~Shu\ Gazette states that the union; started'the str: :e in the cotton trade in two *hriK Thev did not expect Ihe employers tc lock out 100,000 operatives. They now realise their mistake, and are auxion* to get out of the difficult r In- a proposed secret agreement v.liJi ilie masters regarding the employment of non-unionists. The masters have refused to take this step. AN AGITATOR'S THREATS. London, January 10. Mr. Smillie, President of the Scottish Miners' Federation, at a mass meeting in Lanarkshire, stated that he had told Mr. Churchill at a conference that if there was a colliery strike the railways would stop within a fortnight and the Dreadnoughts would be scrap iron in six weeks. Mr. Churchill replied that the Government would pass a Bill to prevent it Mr. Smillie continued that a general stoppage would force people to believe that the industry was too important for private ownership. ADMIRALTY PREPARATION. London, January 10. The Admiralty orders will monopolise Cardiff shipping tonnage for months. A hundred thousand tons of coal has been requisitioned. The Daily Chronicle states that in the event of a British strike German colliers will strike simultaneously. PELAW MAIN COLLIERY IDLE. Sydney, January 11. Notwithstanding his recent speech declaring his efforts to inaugurate industrial peace, Mr. Brown's Pelaw Main colliery is idle through a strike of clippers, who are dissatisfied over the dismissal of two of their number. Eight hundred are affected.