LABOUR TROUBLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10644, 27 May 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

CABLE NEWS

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the dockers; strike

AUDIENCE WITH THE KING

(Received Last Xight, o.H o'clock.)

LONDON, May 25

The Right Hon. R. McKenna visited the dockers: who are on strike, and afterwards had un audience with His Majesty the King. , Sir W. Askwitn, the Labour leader, also saw the King. Deputations from tho millers and meat importers appealed to the Right Hon. R. McKenna for the protection oi their goods. Mr Reekie, representing the Society of the former, claimed that Mr Thomas was u Trade Unionist in every sense of the- word. The Chronicle declares that there is no adequate justification for the strike. No question of wages or hours is involved. Tho man Thomas, over whom the trouble arose, is not a non-union-ist, but is the member of a of which he was tho founder. "Tho strike," says tho Chronicle," "is imprudent and unnecessary.

DOCKERS AT SOUTHAMPTON

ENQUIRY OPENED

STATEMENT OF STRIKERS' GRIEVANCES.

(Received May 25,10 a.m.)

LONDON. May 24

It is" stated that the Dockers' Union at Southampton will refuse to unload anv vessel diverted from London.

Sir Edward Clarke, K.C., as Conciliation Commissioner, has opened an enquiry. Mr Gosling, ■ president of the Transport Workers' Federation, stated the men's grievances, and added that the...strikers were prepared to do their best in the way of protecting public health and caring.for the infirm and tho children.

VESSELS HELD UP

HEAVY FROZEN MEAT CARGOES

(Received May 25, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, May 24. Ten thousand carmen are out, and an 'additional 30,000 are expected to cease work. Already there are some 100,000 men idle in London. Am one; tho vessels held up are five laden with 400,000 carcases of meat. 120,000 NOW "OUT." A GENERAL STRIKE ADVOCATED. Received This Morning, 12.25 o'clock. LONDON, May 26. Upwards of 120,000 transporters are out. ',, The Army service corps are.held in readiness at Aldershot to undertake transport duties. A militant section of railway men arc agitating for a general strike. At rectionol meetings they declared that they would not handle "blackleg" goods. TAILORS STRIKE. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, Mav 25. The strike of 8000 ladies' tailors in East London .has,been settled, the iva.w«s being increased by ten per cent, and tho hours of labour shortened. Fifteen thousand men tailors continue on strike. SOUTH WALES MINERS, :. (Received Last Nigfrt, 5.5 o'clock^' LONDON. May 25; The South Wales miners ba&a resolved that their representative on the District Board shall continue negotiations for a minimum wage, under protest.