LABOR MATTERS.
A CONSPIRACY CHANGE.
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright,
New York, June 8,
A jury at Boston acquitted William Wood, president of the American Woollen Company/ charged with conspiracy to injure the textile workers in connection with the Lawrence strikes.
The State alleged that Wood had arranged a plan for a dynamite outrage jn order to throw the blame on the strikers and thus discredit their movement.
ALLEGED LABOR TRUST. New York, June 8. John White, president, and eighteen members of the United Mine Workers of America, were charged at Charleston, West Virginia, with violation of the antitrust law by conspiring with the coal operators to raise wages in the West Virginia coalfields, in order to prevent competition with other States.
The case is the first of the kind heard under 1 the Sherman law.
TROUBLE IN SOUTH AFRICA,
THREATENED GENERAL STRIKE.
Received 9, 11.40 p.m. Johannesburg, Last Night. A strike of Kleinfontdn miners for'a recognition of the union threatens to become a general strike. The South A" ican trade unions have been instructed to draw up demands for submission to the employers before the declaration of a general strike.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 8, 10 June 1913, Page 5
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189LABOR MATTERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 8, 10 June 1913, Page 5
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