INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 270, 11 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

THE LASTING SOLUTION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, May 9. The Bishop of London, addressing the Diocesan Conference, stated that the lasting solution of the labor unrest was to get behind the higgling of the market. Clerics ought to have preached more effectually to .both sides. Wages should be the first charge upon industry. If the industry required sweated labor, it was better for the nation to abandon it. THE CONCILIATION ACT. London, May 9. There has only been one award in five weeks under the Conciliation Act. In only seven out of twenty-one districts have the parties agreed in selecting the chairman. The Board of Trade appointed the remainder. Anxiety exists respecting the outlook. ANTICIPATING A STRIKE. London, May 9. The Admiralty is placing large orders for coal at Cardiff, anticipating a strike of seamen. THE TATLORTSTG STRIKE. London, May 9. Fifteen thousand East End tailors and tailoresses have struck. AMERICAN RAILWAY STRIKE. Received 10, 12.40 a.m. New York, May 10. The employees on forty-seven railways west and south of Chicago are taking a ballot whether to strike in sympathy with the men on the Harriman lines. Wages is the only question involved.