GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10309, 9 August 1911, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association — ii.i .Electric Telegraph — Copurtj;. t.

LABOUR TROUBLE

(Received August 8, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, An?K=i 7. Although Sir Albert Roliitt's awarl favours the dockers, tho doir.ma.ro ir.n-' tu.ro of the position is that no of tho National T.r.iisijo.-L w'o (>.■■■ is' Federation uill v<-sun:o work until tho demands of all sections hav« boon .satisfied.

(Received August 3, fl >i >n.) LONDON, August; 7. There is a serious lcrm;; t among railway workers at Liverpool and Manchester. A lock-out of four thousand men at tho Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's locomotive works was followed by a striko of fourteen hundted s.-.c:,us porters for higher wages si'id shorter hours. This agitation is spreading to other companies' systems. Tho London and Nortli-Weitern goods porters have struck at Liverpool, and general paralysis of tho railways is "threatened. In all some twelve thousai. d men are now idle.

(Received August S, 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 8. An immigrant hatter, who applied to join the Union, was told that lie would have to pay twenty guineas entrance fee.

(Received August 8, 9.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 8. Late last night the Company unloaded the Aramac's sugar with nonunion labour. Trouble is now threatened with the storemen. Since the Queensland trouble most of the men employed at the Sugar Company's works have organised into a Storemen's Union.