INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
AN UNPOPULAR STRIKE. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Sydney, May 22. The proposed twenty-four hours' strike as a protest against the detention of the Lithgow prisoners is not popular amongst the unions, and trill probably be abandoned. The Government will consider the prisoners' case next week.
THE PORT OF LONDON DISPUTE. London, May 21. The masters deny that they locked out the lightermen, who were withdrawn by the union. It is feared that the strike about one man will involve one hundred thousand shoremen. Already ten thousand New Zealand Shipping Company's laborers at Victoria Dock have struck. The strike is seriously affecting the delivery of apples, necessitating their being railed and carted. If the carters strike there will be a deadlock. CONFERENCE OF MIXERS' FEDERATION.
London, May 21. The national conference of the Miners' Federation has opened in London to consider a minimum wage. The conference fixed district boards.
THE WAGES ACT. THE GOSPEL OF CLASS HATRED. London. May 22. The Labor 'Party intend to bring pressure to bear on the Government to promote a Bill to amend the Wages Act, definitely enacting 5/- and 2/- as a minimum.
In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. McDonald, Mr. Buxton announced that the Government was appointing a Court to enquire into the circumstances of the dispute between the transport workers and the Port of London.
Mr. Bonar Law, speaking at Glasgow, attributed the labor unrest partly to speeches defending the 1009 Budget. The keynote of these was a gospel of class hatred, fed by hopes of a New Jerusalem which had not arrived. Co-partnership was the promising solution, but the only hope of a fairer distribution of wealth without drying up the sources of wealth was to raise the level of wages by means of fiscal reform and colonial preference.
THE*MELBOURNE DOCK STRIKE,
Received 23, 1.10 a.m. Melbourne, May 22. The dock laborers have resumed work pending negotiations for a settlement.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 280, 23 May 1912, Page 5
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322INDUSTRIAL UNREST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 280, 23 May 1912, Page 5
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