Labor Matters

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1914, Page 5

Labor Matters

OUTRAGE IX I'ORTLK'iAL. THREE TRAINS DERAILED. • Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. Lisbon, January 20. Three trains were derailed owing to striker* unbolting the. rails. Some passengers and soldiers were injured. AUSTK A LIA X TKOl" lU.KS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Oamiary 2,0. The action of wharfniLii in not resuming after tea was against tlie advice oi the secretary of the union, who ad- j voealed working under the old agreement until the union can ollicially deal with the situation. In the meantime the shipping companies are making the host of the position and are employing as many men as possible during the regular daytime hours. It is thought that it will endanger, if not extinguish, the New -South Wales coal trade with Chili, the chief market for Australian" coal. After going for various hours, the Professional Musicians' Union lias adopted an agreement whereby visiting musicians will bo charged ,I's 5s per player on arrival in Australia, failing-com-pliance with which the local musicians will refuse to play with the imported people. It was also resolved to enter into a reciprocal agreement with the New Zealand federated unions. Adelaide, January 20. The Wallaroo strike is still unsettled. Several vessels are held up, whilst others have been deviated from the port., SYDNEY SUN'S VIEWS. TWO LESSONS FOR THE REDS. Received 2(1. 5.35 p.m. 'Sydney, January 20. The Sun, in a leader on Ihe South African 1 strike, says that the Australian Unionists red section have had two lessons in South Africa and New Zealand within a few months. I'u New Zealand, Ihe strjjee tried one of the quietest and most peaceful'communities with employing the full spirit of concession from a (lovertimcnt which would use. armed force only with the greatest reluctance. In South Africa the employers, the Government, and the public turned instinctively to rifles, bayonets, and guns, yet both strikes failed. The talk is not of revolutionary success, but of legal enactments for arbitration and conciliation, and these examples should he a warning to the workers, that when rushing a general strike they are looking for defeat, and that legal methods will, in the end, prove the best for the workers.