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LABOUR UNREST.

MASS MEETINGS IN ENGLAND. CAMPAIGN AGAINST NONUNIONISM. (Received Last Night, 10.35 o'clock.' LONDON, August 18. Mass meetings of railwayman wero held in Hyde Park, at Doncaister, York, Liverpool, and Birmingham in celebration of the 1911 strike. The meetings indicated a strong spirit of unrest, and also a sharp difference of opinion between the leaders. Twenty thousand were present at the Hyde Park meeting, where some of the speakers referred to the executive disdainfully. A resolution was carried demanding the executive to initiate a campaign against non-unionism, and tfix a dfate on which all failwaymen must be unionists, when they would then insist on an eight hours' d;with a minimum wage of 30s pei week. Similar resolutions were passed elsewhere. Mr Williams, genera] secretary c the Railwaymen's Union at York, said the present method of conciliation was 100 #!otr« THE MINING INDUSTRY. THE RAND TROUBLE. (Received this morning 12.30 o'clock.) , CAPETOWN, August 18. Owing chiefly to the Trades" Federation's attitude, the Government will abandon the Industrial Commission and substitute Departmental investigation at the Round Table .Conference between the heads of the mining industry.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 5

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LABOUR UNREST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 5

LABOUR UNREST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 5

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