THE LABOUR WAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1037, 18 August 1911, Page 5

THE LABOUR WAR

CABLENEWS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

THE RAILWAY DISPUTE A CONFERENCE ARRANCEO. (Received Last Night, 9.15 o'clock.) LONDON, August 17. A strike is unlikely to be commenced to-diay. Mr Buxton, following up yesterday's conference, said lie desired to meet the railwaymeti's executives. The latter acquiesced, and are coming to London to confer. Meanwhile v sectional meetings of railway employees ha,re agreed . to obey their call. EMPLOYING OF SOLDIERS. Li the House of Commons, the Labourites denounced the brutality of employing soldiers. CONDUCT OF THE POLICE. Mr Ramsay McDonald criticised Mr Winston Churchill's attitude. He said that hiis iblood boiled at the conduct of the "police. If it was true that an offioer shot a man through (the head he ought to be tried for murder. PROPOSED 24 HOURS' NOTICE. The Hon. D. Lloyd-George deprecated the making of Messrs Churchill's and Buxton's tasks harder. He considered that twenty-four liours' notice was a mistake, making negotiations impossible. He appealed to the men. to withhold their threat until the Board of Trade's, machinery, could come into operation. It would otherwise alienate publicsympathy. The Coveniimont won Id at all cost protect the railway and food supply. THE GCVERNMiENT'S ATTITUDE. Mr Winston Churcliill declared that while the Government would not support companies against the. men., or vice versa, they would see that no disaster occurred to the communities' food supply. MOTOR DF,LIVERIES OF NEWSPAPERS. '••'.London newspapers are organising , mdtor deliveries in the event of. the rfailnre of the. railways. , r • '■ Five hundred and fifty troops have been,sent to Cur; I .iff. ( EVERY AVAILABLE SOLDIER , GUARDING THE RAILWAY. (Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock.) LONDON, August 17. Every available soldier at Aldershot is under orders for service on the railways. Men. will be stationed along the lines, and cavalry will be utilised a.t large stations to patitf the lines. Twenty-five thousand men will-be ready in a few hours. Similar orders have been issued at , other military stations in England and Scotland. Several detachments have arrived in London. Only one-fourth of the railway-' men are .members of trades unions'. THE MEN'S DEMANDS. The railway men have issued a manifesto demanding the same opportunities of combination as other workers, and also to have wages and j hours settled by their own .union. They are determined to accept nothing less to settle the job now, once and' for all. - HALF-WAY PROPOSAL REFUSED The Daily Mail staites that at the ioonferenoe it was asked if the companies would, .meet the union official® .half way. The request was refused. REPRESSION OF VIOLENCE. Lord Haldane declared in the House of Lords, that tho Go\ ornment would use all the force necessary to repress unruly and turfnilent violence, as prevailed in Liverpool. He deplored the use of the military, but spid there may be no other way. HANDLING OF MILITARY TRAINS. The York railway men decline to ~liandle trains for the conveyance of 1 soldiers and police. WIDESPREAD UNREST. Widespread unrest exists on the North-east coast among colliers, stevedores, boilermakers, and labourers. TOM MANN'S VIEWS. Mr Tom Mann, in an article in the Daily Mail, states that the present strikes would move in the direction of industrial soliditary as opposed to sectional trade and unionism. The outlook promises gloriously for the worker. There was no necessity for anyone, even a labourer, working for under 40s weekly. He knew that the Unionists would take special pains to prevent artificial prices by launching co-operative production and distribution. THE LIVERPOOL RIOTS. Further rioting ha® occurred aii Liverpool. The mob smashed windows in the trains. They took no notice of the display of force, until the military knelt in an attitude for firing. The mob then hurriedly left, and scattered assemblages were dispersed with baton, charges. In various parts of the city the tramw'aymen threaten to strike. To-day the police secured the services of an armoured motor wagon. The brewery workers are striking owing to the shortage of coal.