LABOUR TROUBLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10645, 29 May 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

THE LONDON STRIKE

TRANSPORTERS OEASE WORK

(Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.)

LONDON, May 28. The unloading of meat continues. Elevon> hundred policemen are protecting the workers, who consist of a foreman, tally-clerks, and a fore© of meat porters from Manchester. Troops are in readiness if needed, I while firemen at the dock gates are prepared to quench excitable men. Various convoys reached Smitliheld unmolested. Eight hundred naval reservists have volunteered to discharge vessels, of which over two hundred are held up. The Strike Committee has withdrawn the facilities given for the working of refrigerators, and has requested foreign unions not to handle j. diverted ships. l The Committee has issued a. manijfesto, warming the Government (against repressive measures, otherIvvise extreme action will be • taken. Tho Committee states that it will not treat with sectional employers. Orders have been given for all transporters to cease work forthwith. It is estimated that a concession of the men's demands would impose an additional £lso,oooyearly on the Port of London authority.

A MINIMUM WAGE

(Received Last Night, 9.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, May 28

The National Association of Grocers' Assistants has instructed its executive to take steps to secure*a minimum wage.

NO STRIKE PAY

(Received Last Night, 9.3-3 o'clock.)

LONDON, May 28

The Gas Workers and General Labourers' Union. Conference at Sunderland withdrew from the General Trade Union Federation because it had not received strike pay in the recent sfcrika and lockout.

A- LABOURER'S STRIKE

LONDON, Mar 28

Six -hundred'labourers at the Fairfield yards at Govan have struck for an increase of a half-penny per hour in recognition of the national amalgamation of, labour.

APPEAL TO THE STRIKERS'

SPORTSMANSHIP.

(Received May 28, 10 a.m.)

! DONDON, May 27. Owing to the waterside workers' strike the passengers by the Orient Company's steamer Osterley, 12,129 tans, from Australia, were obliged to handle their own luggage. The steamer's stewards arad others have struck for 1 Latter ventilated quarters and more lifeboats, The secret»- y D " the Orient. Com.and the Osterley's captain and chief officeT worked the winch in older to lower an, eight-oared boat belonging to the Australian crew, who are to take part in'the Olympic games at Stockholm. The boat was placed on a lorry, but the strikers prevented the lonry from leaving the Tilbury docks, and threatened to make difficulties in connection with- its transportation to Marlow. The authorities offered the protection of twenty-five police, but Captain Horniman (manager of the Australasian Olympic team) refused, trusting to the strikers' sportsmanship. The strikers then good-natured-ly allowed the lorry to pass.

SAILINGS OF STEAMERS

(Received May 28, 9.20 a.m.)

LONDON, May 27

v The sailings of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamers Cecilia-and' Candia have been indefinitely postponed. >' ■■

A butchar from Smit'hfiekl markets unloaded.'an Argentine cargo of meat a;nd conveyed it by motor to Smithfield, under police protection.