THE HOME STRIKES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10405, 28 August 1911, Page 5

THE HOME STRIKES

TRADES DISPUTES ACT.

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

TRAMWAY STRIKE AVERTED.

LIGHTERMEN TO RESUME,

(Received Last Night, 5 o'clock.)

LONDON, August 26

A tramway strike in London was averted by the County Council's Committee recognising the Union, settling certain grievances manager-, ially, and referring others to the Conciliation Board. .

The lightermen's strike has been settled.

The shipowners at Liverpool have terminated the lock-out conditionally on all resuming, otherwise, tho leek-aub will be renewed.

The Dockers' Union gives pledge not to siupport any wishing to disregard the agreement. VOLUNTEER LEAGUE.

Several London newspapers support the suggestion of a permanent volunteer league to carry on the public services in the event of a great combined strike.

A similar organisation in 1909 aused a general strike in Sweeden to collapse. The Midland Railway presented t'te loyalists with a week's pay besides there ordinary wages. A dozen baton charges at Bargoed and Gilfach occurred to-day. Several were injured. Half a dozen promises were damaged. . RACING CLUB PENALISED. The Stewards of the Irish Turf Cluo have decided that the circumstance;; of the Irish railway strike did :iot justify the Leopardstown . Jockey Club's Executive in abandoning the first day's meeting, and withheld !>he Club's license for the remainder of 1911. The stewards also fined the clerk of the course £IOO for not taking adequate steps to consult the local stewards, and ordered the Club to defray all expenses to the . owners, trainers, and jockeys in connection with the fixture for the nineteenth.

INCBEASED COST OF FOOD

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, August 26

Apropos of the wages question, the newspapers publish details of the cost of housekeeping, which shows that groceries and green groceries have increased 25 per cent in fifteen years.

petition fob, its bepeal

(Received Laist Nighjt, 5.5 o'clock.)

August 26. The Leeds Chamber of Oomimeroe tea uirgedi ifchie QovwrMamt it© repeal (the Tradies Dispute* Act and revise the. peaoeful picketing law.

MEETING OF SOCIALISTS.

MILITARY INTERVENTION DE-

THE ANTI-SEMITIC DISTURBANCE.

Received This Morning^,l2.s o'clock.

LONDON, August 27. A meeting of the Socialist Democratic Painty in Trafalgar laquare. deaiounoed the rasing of the troops in. oanaueabioii mtlh the istrike. . Mr Ben Tillett declared that if the Tory Government had .so aioted, Mr' ,Hoyd-<3ieorge would hia/ro wept leans 1 of blood at the maißSiaer>& of his ooumtryameni; Mr Asquith would have de-1 blared that the Constitution had been prostituted by the Tories" atnd oapitalBists; add s&ir. W T iim'stan Churchill, would have called.' up his father's ghost to "wallop"-the Tories. Prominent Jewis see mothling in the anti-Semitic Welsh outburst but pure hooliganism, f/otr the purposes of ithefit.

, There is a widespread dlemand ini commercial cirdbes for the repeal of the isection of the Trade® Ddsputiesi Act, dealing with practical picketing, and the .Trades Unions, from reisponisiibility for' their acts. , . ■■