INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 29 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

) UNLOADING FROZEN MEAT. J3y Cable —Press Association—Copyright. London, May 27. Butchers from Smithfldd unloaded an Argentine cargo and conveyed the meat by motor to Smithfidd under police protection. • THE STRIKE SPREADING. r GROCERS, GASWORKERS AND ! LABORERS. \ Received 88, 9 pjn. I London, May 28. On*e grocere' assistants have instructed their executive to take steps to secure a minimum wage. The Gasworkers and General Laborers' Union Conference at Sunderland withttrew from the General Trade Union Federation, because it had not received atrike pay during the recent strikes and lock-outs. Six hundred laborers at the Fairfield Yards, Govan, have struck for an increase of V 2 d per hour, and recognition of the National Amalgamation of Labor. THE MEAT TRADE. SHIPPING HELD UP. > THE STRIKE COMMITTEE® ULTIMATUM. Received 28, 9 p.m. London, May 28. Meat unloading continues. Eleven hundred police are protecting the workers, who consist of foremen, tally clerks and a force of meat porters from Manchester. The troops are in readiness if needled 1 , while firemen at the dock gates are prepared to quench excitable men. Various convoys rached Smithfield unmolested. Eight hundred naval reservists volunteered to discharge vessels, over two hundTed of which are held up.

The Strike Committee withdrew facilities given for working refrigerators, and have requestedi foreign unions not to handle diverted ships. It has issued a manifesto "warning the Government against repressive measures; otherwise extreme action will be taken. The committee states that it will not treat with sectional employers, and orders all transporters to cease work forthwith. It is estimated that the concession of the men's demands would impose an additional .£150,000 yearly on the Port'of London Authority. ASSISTING THE STRIKERS. Received 28. 11 p.m. London, May 28. Some vessels are unloading at Queenborough instead of at London. The laborers usually coaling the warships have been employed to assist the strike-breakers from Dover. The Grand Master of the Manchester United Conference at Nottingham deprecated trade unions becoming approved societies, and/ said that any Oddfellow supporting them acted against his financial interest. THE SOCIALIST CONGRESS. Received 28. 9 p.m. London, May, 28. Tie Socialist Congress was lively. Mr. Hyndman, presiding; resented the insolence to which he was subjected, remarking that some delegates behaved like infuriated anarchists. The congress passed a vote of confidence in Mr. Hyndman. There was much uproar in the subsequent debates. Lady Warwick criticised .the Labor Party, who, she said, instead of fighting the House of Commons, sat with meek hearts and spoke with flattering tongues. They were a broken reed, and no longer to be trussed. At the Independent Labor Party's conference Mr. Merther criticised the Labor Party's relationship to the Government, who were the workers' worst enemy. Mr. Keir Hardie defended the party, and urged that its increase in the House of Commons would make it more effective. SPORTING STRIKERS. 1 London, May 27.

Owing to the strike, the Osterley's passengers were obliged to handle their own luggage. The stewards and others struck for better ventilated quarters and more lifeboats.

The secretary of the Orient Company and the Osterley's captain and chief officer worked the winch, lowering the New South Wales eight-oared boat, jphich is being taken to the Olympic Games. The strikers prevented it being put on to a lorry to be taken to Reading from Tilbury. In view of threatening difficulties, 25 police were offered for the protection of the boat, but Mr. Horniman, who has charge of it, refused, trusting to the strikers' sportsmanship. The strikers good naturedly then allowed the boat to pass, ) AN ECHO OF THE PAST. ) London, May 27. • Mr. Alfred Henderson, M.P., unveiled a public memorial of six men of Tolpu<Me, convicted at Dorset in 1833 for conspiring for the betterment of wages to only seven shillings weekly. They were sentenced to seven years' imprisonmnent and transportation to Botany Bay, buit the sentence was remitted in 1836. The memorial adjoins the Wesieyan chapel where some of the prisonerg preached I .WEIiL-ADVTSED 00-OPERATION. ; Sydney, May 28. The master butchers have decided to co-operate with the men in securing ihorter hours and thus obviating the threatened strike.