LABOUR TROUBLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10086, 6 September 1910, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

- »i..w m „ , ■ . HOME AND FOREIGN. Received September 5. 10 a.m. MADRID, September 5. The strike of miners and others at Bilbao, Spain, Is collapsing. There are 25,000 persons idle at Saragossi. The stride leaders have resolved that work shall be resumed to morrow

LONDON, September 4. Twenty-five thousand and 15,000 platers and rivet-heaters' ■re locked out in the North of England and Scotland. The maotera'declare themselves to be in dead earnest. A conference between the federation and the men's representatives will bo held next week. ADELAIDE, September 5. The strikers on railway works total 6dov : ■ .>....-.*',>...-..-"■■. ';-..;

STRIKE IN BARCELONA.

NEWSPAPERS CEASE PRINTING.

Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock. MADRID, September 5.

In sympathy with the strikers at Bilbao, the Labour Solidarity Committee has ordered a general strike at Barcelona.

Members of the Commitee visited the printing offices in force, and ordered the stoppage of the newspapers, which are not appearing;.

SHIPPING STRIKE.

WILL IT TAKE PLACEJ

Received September 5, 10' a.m, LONDON, Septembejf

Apropos the report that the:lnternational Transpnrt Workers' federation had agreed to call an; JBsarnationai shipping strike, Mjr J. Havetock Wilson, president qf! t|e National Sailors and Firemen's Union, who. organised the move ment, was interviewed at South Shields. He said that meetings had been arranged at all the ports of Great Britam, the Continent, and Australia. At these meetings the men would be asked if they were prepared to quit their ships at a given signal. The meetings will be open to unionists and non-unionists.

ANOTHER STRIKE.

TEN THOUSAND WELSH

MINERS IDLE. Received this Morning. 12.40 o'clock. LONDON, September 5. The workmen employed by the Cambrian Combine at Rhondda Valley, Wales, have resolved to keep idle two pits aa a protest against the dismissal of another workman. Another pit nas further resolved to strike without notice. I Ten thousand men are affected.