BRISBANE STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10556, 10 February 1912, Page 7

BRISBANE STRIKE.

ACTIVITY OF STRIKERS. ' (Received February 9, 9.5 a.m.) j (United Press Association —l>y FAeoj trie Telegraph —Copyright.) BRTSBAXK, February 9. The strike committee is displaying increased •activity and Alio trend of the latest proposals is to throw the burden of the fight on tilie r.: ions concerned so that <tlho main, arteries of trado will gradually resolve a general strike into n .sectional strike, involving seamen, waterside workers, and coal-miners. Unionists returning to work .are to contribute to the fund to keep those mentioned on strike indefinitely. This is a counter proposal to extending the trouble throughout Australia. Ample funds <ue coming forward from other States, and there is every prospect- of a prolonged struggle. Employers are showing unprecedented firmness regarding wliom they employ. The Daily Mail newspaper decided not to take back compositors who are associated with the Trades Hall, and has invited the men to fonn >a separate union. At the employers meeting on Wednesday a master 'butcher stated that the men returned to work on their own volition. The strike committee replied by calling the men out again, a I'd now all are out, and a meat famine is threatened. ■ Practically a full train service is running. The manager states that the only tiling to interfere now will be the .exhausting coal supplies. I Inquiries lhave already been sent to Japan with a view of importing coal to Brisbane. As vessels arrive the seamen a,re called out, and they are considered one of the principal factors in the figlht-. ' The committee hopes through its agency to completely paralyse trade.