WOOL-COMBERS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10522, 10 January 1912, Page 5

WOOL-COMBERS

THE BRADFORD STRIKE. QUESTION OF NON-UNIONISTS. (Received Last Night, 10.25 o'clock.) LONDON, January 9. A mass meeting at Accrington declared that while the operatives should be members of the Union, the question of non-unionists should not be made tihe cause for a strike. The meeting requested the leaders to seciure a settlement. Mr Thomas, chairman of tihe Cambrian Combine Collieries, declared that recent efforts to effect peace by a compromise had (been ,&et aside, and now the struggle was coming to a critical stage. He wished to make it dear that the mastera considered outside intervention undesirable, and •were going to manage .their own affairs'. It was inadvisable that tihe Board of Trade should interfere. lit was not a matter for arbitration, asj a question of principle was involved, j The Bradford masters have resolv-j ed upon a lock-out unless the wool- j combers resume on Wednesday, and/ also not to renew 1 the agreement .to secure labour! through, the - operative uaiioif. Tftey assert a year's trial had., proved a failure, and-hence-forth. tihey _ wouldi require unionists ooid non-unipnists to work together. :