THE IRISH STRIKES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10429, 21 September 1911, Page 5

THE IRISH STRIKES.

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United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

THE MEN'S DEMANDS

TOO EXTRAVAGANT FOR COM-

PLIANCE

(Received Last Night, 8.45 o'clock.)

LONDON, September 20. The raiiwaymen at Waterford demand the recognition of their Union as the basis of settlement. They decline to handle non-union goods. Before the Royal Commission at Hyde, the General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway declared that the men's demands were so extravagant that compliance therewith would have swept away his Company's dividend. He opposed the recognition of the Unions, which, 'he said, would nob secure permanent peace.

MEN'S DEMANDS REFUSED

A SERIOUS SITUATION. TROOPS IN READINESS. (Received Last Night, 10.20 o'clock.) LONDON, September 20. IrLh Companies are firmly resisting tho strikers' demands. They decline the invitation to meet the Railway Servants' Association Executive. The latter thereupon resolved that unless the, Companies ceased penalising the men for refusing to lhandle blackleg goods they would call out all the Irish railway men. A number of men who were imported from Manchester to fill the Kingsbridge strikers' places, have yielded to the persuasion of the pickets, with the exception of nine, whom the police escorted. Large drafts of tro'ops are ready for emergencies. The Royal engineers are engaged in driving passenger trains. Goods traffic is suspended. The South Eastern is the only Company wba'cli refused to accept touched. < IRON FOUNDERS LOCKED OUT. Three Wexford iron founders have locked! out their employees. Another firm decided that as some employees joined' the Transport Workers' Union to henceforth' employ non-milonists.

The price of provisions is ris-