LABOR UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1919, Page 2

LABOR UNREST

. TIIE TROUBLE SPREADING SHORTER HOURS ULTBIATOM. London, Jan. £i. Several thousand miners at Nottinghamshire coal lield have struck. The strikers complain that a number of men, including discharged soldiers, Jirvc received a dismissal Jioi.ic.e without gatts-' factory reason. The employers statu that only twcsi-ty-livo ineu avo under notice. They were temporarily engaged and are now being dismissed to male* room for i demobilised soldiers.

The Daily Chronicle states that the Yorkshire miners' strike will affect a million workers in tho dependent industries.

This wee'fc the Glasgow tramway workers have decided to join a general strike for a forty-hour week on Monday.

The shipbuilding and other workers on the Firth of Forth, with tlie exemption of tlie engineers havt» reached a similar decision,—'Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assu. London, Jail, 23.

The Federation oi' GeneTal Workers, at a special meeting in London, decided to demand a forty-four hour week.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn

EFFECT Ciif ARGENTINE SfRIICE.VESSELS LEAVE HARBOR.

Received Jan. 26, 5.45 p.m. New York, Jan. H,

Despatches from Buenos Aires say that 26 vessels left the harbor because the striko was not settled.—Aus.-N-Z Cable Aasn

London, Jan. 25. The concessions granted to Yorkshire miners apply only during the period of control. It in anticipated that 95 per cent, of the strikers will resume before Monday. West Yorkshire owners communicated with the Miners' Association protesting that they did not causa the sudden.stoppage and denying that any work-people had been locked out.

Thirty Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire collieries aTe idle, involving SO.OOtf miners. The owners refuse to ljieet the men until work is resumed.

Several thousand miners at a ipass meeting at Wansfleld demanded that Mr. Sraellie call a general strike of miners within two days, and if that fails call out the triple alliance, comprising the miners, railwaymen, and transport workers.,

Unrest in South Wales is spreading to the Bristol Channel- The boilermakers are out in support of the wages movement.

The belief is general in Glasgow that th® advocates o( direct industrial action are exploiting the shorter hours' agitation as a method of calling 6 general strike on Monday unless 40 hours a ve.ek is conceded. This resembles an' ultimatum, excluding the possibility o! negotiation, and involves the -employers in unconditional surrender or a strike. The organisers nf the movement held a meeting at which thev received reports from industrial centres in England anrf sent missions to attemot ts bring tin English workers into ljnc-

Mr. Clvnes presided at the meeting of general workers previously cabled representing ft million unionists. The meeting emphasised the necessity for shorter hour* to enable the absorption of a greater number of demobilised men --Aua.-N.Z, Cable Assn.

AMERICAN SYMPATHY. i London, Jan. 24 Mr. Lansbury (Labor MP.), interviewed, said he found the Americans most sympathetic to tho Labor charter. He fears outbreaks of Bolshevism in England and France unless the rulinfr lessen keep tho pledge that the world shall bo & better place for workers.— Aua.-if.Z. Cable Assn.

i _ TROUBLE IN PARIS. Paris, Jan. 25. The underground railway and tramway employees have 9trusk. Traffic is paralysed. Troops are guarding the stations.—Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.

The Government Ims decided to tifee over tho underground railways and the onmibuiscj in the city to prevent s stoppage of services.—Reuter.

POSITION IN AMERICA. New York, Jan. Za. The Director of Labor estimates that ten million people are workless in tha Lnited States. Fe predicts a srious period of trade adjustment—Aua.-N.£ Cable Assn

STRIKE AT BISWAS,.; Received Januarv 27, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan 20. As the result ct a municipal strike Bolfast is gasless, tramless and lightles-s. Many industries are closing down for lack of electrical power.