LABOUR TROUBLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10442, 6 October 1911, Page 6

LABOUR TROUBLES.

RAILWAY WORKERS.

(Received October 5, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, October 4

A meeting of the Amalgamated Railwiayimen'.s Society at Carlisle passed a resolution in favour' of the nationalisation of railways, an eight hours' day for railwayman, and the* reform of the labour exchanges, in order that they might not be used against the trades, union interests.

STRIKE RIOTS.

(Received October 5, 8.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 5. Fatal riots continue in connection, with the railway strikes. ' Pistols were used at McComb, Mississippi, one striker being killed, and ir.a,ny dangerously wounded. A regiment of the National Guard ha., Jbeen ordered out to restore order. A train, carrying strike breakers was riddled with hullets when passing the town. A few were injured.

IRISH STRIKE.

(Received October 5, 9.35 a.m.)

LONDON, October 4

Mr Burt, M.P., in a circular to the Northumberland miners, denounces the Irish railwayman's strike as arbitrary and ill-timed, thus weakening the otherwise strong case for the recognition of the .union.

MR RAMSAY MACDONALD.

(Received October 5, 9.35 a.m.)

LONDON, October 4

Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, in a Socialist review, strongly attacks syndioatism and the general strike theory, !

BROKEN HILL.

{ October 5, 9.50 a.m.)

SYDNEY, October 4

TJie Broken Hill miners heve telegraphed to the Mount Lyell strikers not to go to broken Hill, .<• th e are hundreds out of work.

The mine managers dc? 1 * <? that work is seriously hampered by lack of labour.

STRIKE SETTLED.

» (Received October 4, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 4. The G'reat Southern and Western strike has been settled, the men withdrawing their claim not to handle "blackleg" goods, and apologising (for striking. ' The Company will reinstate the locomotive men and ninety per cent, of the others, and will retain the men employed during the strike.

CHURCH AND LABOUR.

(Received October 5, 10.20 a.m.)

\LONBON, October 4. At the Choirch Congress at Stoke-on-Trent, Rev. J. iR. Diggle, Bishop of Carlisle, in. an address on "Clericalism," said it was m camber which many countries, were ruthlessly abolishing by a process painful but inevitable and necessary. Right Rev. A. ¥: W. Ingram, Bishop of London, considered it equally critical that the Church was taking no heed of the (passionate desire for heaven on earth which was the basis of the Labour .movement. The latter was a definitely religious movement. The reason of the Church of -fc"^ Jand'is want of influence war. ••••• > it was- still a class church apt to like the poor only so long as they kept their proper places.'