LABOR UNREST.
BELFAST STRIKE ENDED, GOVERNMENT REPLY TO MINERS' DEMANDS. Keceived Feb. 12, 7.30 p.m. Belfast, Feb. 11. The employers have offered shorter hours if the men return. In order to enable the conference to settle details, the strike committee accepted the oiler, and the men will ballot immediately, it being confidently expected that the strike will now terminate. The miners received the Government's reply to their demand for a six-hour day, thirty per cent. Increase Of wages, and the nationalisation of mines. The reply has not been disclosed, but will be submitted to the federation conference tomorrow. STATEMENT BY LLOYD GEORGE. GOVERNMENT WILL FIGHT PRUSSIANISM. Received Feb. 12, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 11. Mr. Lloyd George stated that the increased cost of labor in production and bonus has added ninety millions to the cost of running the railways during the war period. Government negotiations had resulted in agreements regarding hours and wages of two million people, and negotiations were progressing affecting two million others. Anarchy was the aim and purpose of the men who were attempting to undermine the confidence of the 1 trade union leaders. The Government was determined to light this Prussianista with its whole might, and the nation would •suppress the attempts to overthrow existing order by brute force. —Aue. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE SEATTLE STRIKES. Received 12, 10.25 p m. New York, Feb. 11. The general strike at Seattle was cancelled by the unions, whose national leadors repudiated sympathy with tho sfrike. Mayor Hanson claims that he thwarted a revloution and a reign of terror, with which he charges the Bolsheviks and I.W.W. The conspirators hoped to spread to every city in America, finally overthrowing ihi Government. SHIPWORKERS RESUMING. London, Feb 10. The strikers in the London shipyards and docks, are steadily resuming work. Tho hotelkeepers have docided not to recognise the Waiters' Union. The strikers have resumed work. Fifty per cent of the shipyard workers on the Slyde have resumed work, and a general Te-start is expected on February 12.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TRANSPORT WORKERS' DEMANDS London, Fob. 10. The transport workers are demanding a 44-hour week, TTie employers offer 4GJ hours.—Aua-N.Z. Cable Assn. INDUSTRIAL REFORMLondon, Feb. 10. At the opening of Parliament the King's Speech urged the stamping out of poverty, diminishing unemployment, and improving national health. No tenderness must be shown towards acknowledged abuses which prevented tho attainment of social ends. Violence might retard but would not prevent reform.— Aus.'N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1919, Page 5
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