THE STRIKE BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 233, 30 March 1912, Page 5

THE STRIKE BILL.

j JHE CRY OF THE CHILDREN. f By. Cable—Press Association—Copyright, i - London, March 28. Two. Aldershot regiments have gone $0 Shrewsbury. The infantile mortality m Manchester has risen from 84 to 135 per thousand. There is a similar rise in the potteries district. STOPPAGE OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC. EXHAUSTED STRIKE FUNDS. London, March 28. The railways have decided not to run goods trains next week except to carry food. Several companies have cancelled the Easter excursions. There have been angry meetings in (Warwickshire, owing to the strike pay fund being exhausted. The miners are demanding that the executive should draw upon the pension fund. The Warwickshire miners' executive has ordered the men not to wait for the ballot, but to return to work immediately. , SYNDICALISM. London, March 28. The Hon. Ormsbv Gore (Conservative) raised a debate in the House of Commons on syndicalism. Mr. Hobhouse, a Cabinet Minister, kaid that he did not think the doctrine bad a real hold on the British working classes. There were many causes of unrest. The Government was willing to grant a wide inquiry into the causes of the rise in the cost of liting and industrial unrest. RELEASE OF TOM MANN. DEATHS FROM STARVATION. ' MR. ASQUITH SPEAKS. London, March 28. Tom Mann has been released on bail, liaving promised not to repeat his remarks pending his trial. A number of deaths from starvation liave occurred in the potteries district. The Mayor's fund at Grimsbv has been the means of relieving three thougand families, and a thousand children •re being fed at school. There are 132 vessels, aggregating 147,000 tons, idle on the Tyr.e, where 40,000 men, besides miners, are unemployed. Five hundred men of the Shropshire Regiment and Welsh Fusiliers have arrived at Brynn Kina and Chirk, where the strikers to day accepted the masters' offer to re-iime work. Strikers in Midlothian are averse fiom resumption unless the minimum of 6s is granted. The Premier, addressing Liberal members of the House of Commons who are representatives of mining constituencies, emphasised the recogniiti.n by the Legislature of the principle of th? minimum wage, and dwelt on the increasingly strong public demand for the resumption of normal conditions. The meeting passed a resolution of admiration for the Premier's action and aleo of appreciation of the benefits of the Bill. London, March 28. Trains are in readiness at Aldershot to convey four thousand troops, if required, for quelling disturbances occasioned through (the strike, and an additional Bix thousand troops are preparing. The Labor leaders adjure the striker.? to refrain from disorder where the men are resuming work, otherwise public lympathy will be alienated. MINERS CLAIM A VICTORY. BILL PASSES THE LORDS.

; DISTURBANCES WITH STRIKERS. Received 29, 11.40 p.m. London, March 29. The miners' leaders have returned to the colliery districts describing the Bill as a victory for the men. The prospects of the ballot are favorable, although a strong body in South Wales is opposed to the resumption of Work. The display of the military at Chirck has exercised a sobering influence on the men, and all pits are now working unmolested. The police when stoned at Mexborough retaliated with a baton change. There were otheh- disturbances at Walsall, where two thousand Cannock Chase strikers compelled the Bloxwich colliery to cease work. The Strike Bill has been read for the fchfrd time in the House of Lords. The Government will not proceed with the amendment, which more clearly define the meaning of the phrase "average daily rate of wages." Lord Crewe explained that the proposed amendment was unimportant, but the miners are suspicious of any change favouring the owners. Therefore the amendment was abandoned. Lord Lansdowne protested.