LABOUR TROUBLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10311, 11 August 1911, Page 3

LABOUR TROUBLES.

LONDON STRIKES SPREADING. (Received August 10, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 9. A general strike of carters has been ordered, involving a further ten thousand men. Strikers overturned carts containing meat and wool leaving the docks. The cold storage porters have struck. There were exciting scenes ' at Smithfield, the strikers roughly handling salesmen who were attempting to remove carcases. A number of trucks were overturned. The Runic's fruit shipment has not been discharged, and the foreign fruit trade at Covent Gargen is totally suspended. Business at the Corn Exchange in Smithfield and Tooley Street is practically at a standstill. The stevedores ask for an all-round increase of 25 per cent., giving them at least 7s 6d daily, and double pay on Bank holidays and the King's Birthday, work to cease at noon on Saturdays. y Mr Gosling has arranged to allow the resumption of the barging of dust and refuse, the irterruption of which threatened to become a great public nuisance during the hot weather. Mr Gosling, Secretary of the transport workers, anticipates a speedy settlement as the outcome of the conference with Mr Asquith. ' Five hundred Smithfield meat-cart-ers have struck. The clerical staff at Waterloo goods station, refusing to perform porters' duty, have struck. ' Four thousand railwaymen at Liverpol have struck. Quantities of meat, butter and other perishable goods cannot be moved, and fruiterers are suffering severely. Chaos reigns at Liverpool docks, on the quays, and at the railway station. The strikers demolished fish boxes, which were scattered in all directions, and looted a beer wagon and a milk van. The passenger porters and vanmen have struck. A strike of Manchester engineers has rendered twenty thousand men idle. A hundred workmen at the Port Sunlight mills have struck for higher wages.