LABOR MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 115, 1 October 1912, Page 5

LABOR MATTERS.

THE GEORGIA STRIKE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, September 29.

The arrival of twenty-five strikebreakers from New York and the death of Ben Baker, a business man who was shot by three soldiers, making three deaths, are the principal features of the railway strike at Augusta, Georgia. The large crowds congregating are orderly.

A SERIOUS SITUATION. New York, September 29. The situation at Bingham mines continues serious, and further bloodshed is feared.

RIOTS IN AMERICA. ' Received 30, 9.30 p.m. New York, September 30. Because three workers were gaoled on a charge of killing two men during a winter strike at Salem, the Industrial Workers of the World, without permission, paraded in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The police interfered, and a fight with knives and clubs ensued. Two constables were stabbed. Three workers were arrested. The mob freed their leader.

SOUTH WALES MINERS. Received 30, 10.5 p.m. London, September 29. In the anthracite district, in South Wales, the Miners' Federation, with a membership of 18,000, has decided to quit the Federation and conduct its own affairs, as a protest against the Federation's adoption of centralisation by the abolition of districts.

A MISTAKEN STRIKE. Received 1, 1.20 a.m. Sydney, September 30. The Barrier Labor Federation has admitted that the municipal employees at (Broken Hill were called out without cause. They explained that the men had been misled. The strike has been declared off.