LABOUR DISPUTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 5

LABOUR DISPUTES.

CABLE_ NEWS

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THE DUBLIN TROUBLE. INQUIRY OPENTO THE PUBLIC. (Received October 2, 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. The Board of Trade inquiry into the Dublin labour dispute is being held in public. Mr Tim Healy, K.C., who is representing the employers, stated that the cause of the trouble was the terminating of agreements at a minutes' notice. The Labour leaders had been exercising the greatest tyranny in order to humble the masters, and had worn out their marrowbones kneeling at Larkin's shrine. EMPLOYERS' DECISION. TWO THOUSAND FIRMS AFFECTED. (Received October 2, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, October.!. The Cotton Spinners' Federation Executive has decided to urge the closing of the mills on the 25th inst., and that they remain closed until all the Beehive trouble is settled. The decision affects two thousand firms, with a capital of fifty million pounds, employing one hundred thousand operatives. Sir Charles Macarn, the president of the Federation, says the crisis is the gravest for twenty years. As the operatives' leaders are unable to control the men, a drastic step is necessary to enforce discipline. REFUSE IN CHICAGO. CONTRACTING FIRMS WILL NOT REMOVE IT. (Received October 2, 12.30 p.m.", CHICAGO, October 1. As a result of a dispute between the city authorities and a garbage removing company, the latter has refused to discharge its duty by removing refuse, seven hundred tons of which is daily accumulating. The city is threatened with a typhoid epidemic. The council is considering the question of taking forcible possession of the refuse company's property, m order to abate the nuisance.

THE BEEHIVE STRIKE. TO CONTINUE "uNTIL MONDAY. (Received Last Night, 10.40 o'clock.) LONDON, October 2. The Bolton Operatives Association has authorised the Beehive strike, which will continue until Monday.