INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1919, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

I SITUATION IMPROVING IN BRITAIN. LABOR LEADER CONDEMNS STRIKES. By Telegraph.—PfeM Assn.—Copyright. London, Aug. 11. The situation in the Labor world is improving. The failure of the strikes of the police, the Tecs steel-workers, and others, is having a wholesome effect in the trade union world. A number of Labor leaders at week-end mass meetings insisted on the folly of continual strikes. The deadlock continues in Yorkshire, wh&re 1,200,000 tons of coal have already been lost, but there are indications that the Yorkshire miners favor a ballot, which would probably result in a decision to return to work.

Speakers at a mass meeting in Hyde Park, including discharged police strikers, contended that the strike was continuing, and requested trade union support, but it is obvious to everyone that the extremists have utterly failed.

The termination of the bakers' strike is due to the acceptance of the employers' offer to arbitrate regarding 44 hours weekly and £4 minimum wage, also to the introduction in Parliament of a Bill abolishing night work.

The documents seized at Acton include plans for the seizure of guns, rifles and ammunition from the army depots. The police contemplate other raids on suspected quarters. Mr. Thomas, M.P., addressing a great Tabor meetin" at Yarmouth, condemned the over use of strikes as an industrial weapon. They were sometimes necessary, but downing tools every day on every conceivable subject was a disastrous method, losing its power and doing incalculable harm. The continuance of such a practice would lend to chaos. The only safe road to progress w;is constitutional government.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.