LABOR MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 114, 30 September 1912, Page 5

LABOR MATTERS.

THE BROKEN HILL STRIKE. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, September 28.

The majority of the Broken Hill strikers have resumed work, pending a conference between the Labor Federation and the aldermen.

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. Sydney, September 27. At the Employers' Conference a resowas passed that the Commonwealth Arbitration Act was a failure, THE LAWRENCE STRIKE. New York, September 27. Four thousand textile workers at Lawrence, Massachusetts, have again struck, at the instance of the Industrial Workers of the World. The total idle is now 12,0i>0. The trial at Lawrence of two men charged with implication in the strike murder early this year is pending, and is causing great unrest. A LANCASHIRE STRIKE. London, September 27. Cardroom workers in an Oldham mill have given notice of a strike owing to the owers having refused to compensate a girl who was injured while cleaning moving machinery, in spite of orders to the contrary. The owners threaten an action for damages against individual strikers and the union.

STRIKE OF DOCTORS. London, September 27. The strike of doctors against the Insurance Act is spreading. Thirty-six have resigned their work for friendly societies in Essex, and all the doctors have acted similarly in Birmingham. The Irish doctors have decided not to administer the Act. It is expected that by Monday twelve thousand positions will be vacated.

SERIOUS RTOTING. TROOPS FIRE ON STRIKERS. Received 29. 5.5 p.m. New York, September 28. At Rugusta. Georgia, after serious rioting wherein two men were killed, martial law was proclaimed. The strike led to disorders and attacks on the street railway cars. The soldiers established a dead line, forbidding the strikers to cross it.

In consequence of a report that the electric power works were in danger of being dynamited, a number of strikers crossed the line, and the soldiers riddled them with bullets. THE SPANISH STRIKE. Received 29. 5.5 p.m. Madrid, September 28. A general railway strike on all railways has been declared. The strikers are rioting in Barcelona, where a train was derailed and three men killed and a number injured.