INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 277, 20 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

ONE DAY STRIKE. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Sydney, May 18. A meeting of Litligow trades unionists protested against the proposal for a one-day strike unless the imprisoned strikers were released.

THE PEACE CONFERENCE. GENERAL STRIKE ADVOCATED. London, May 17. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, in a speech at the National Peace Conference, said that when the Internationa] Organisation of Labor was completed a general strike would make war impossible. He intended to use all his influence to procure such an organisation. The conference, by 89 votes to 47, refused to approve of the Independent Labor Party's strike proposal to avert war.

PARLIAMENT THE ULTIMATE ARBITER. Received 1-9, 5.5 p.m. London, May 19. Mr. G. M. Barnes, the leader of the Labor Party in the House of Commons, and secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, in an article in the Daily Mail on labor unrest, says that he believes the easment must come from Parliament. It ' should come quickly, before irresponsible spirits get the upper hand, and before sectional doctrines gain a firmer hold. Parliament, in order to retain the confidence of labor, must show greater readiness to look at things from labor's point of view. The next great step would be a legal minimum wage.

STRIKE OF FREIGHT-HANDLERS. Received 19, 5.5 p.m. New York, May 18. A strike of freight-handlers throughout the United States is threatened, following the refusal of increased wages. HONORING THE DEAD. Received 20, 12.10 a.m. London, May 19. Thirty thousand mourners attended the funeral of Hartley, the bandmaster of the Titanic.