LABOUR UNREST.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13524, 4 November 1911, Page 5

LABOUR UNREST.

TRAWLERS’ STRIKE ENDED. Pres* Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. Received November 4, 9.0 a.m. THE HAGUE, November 3. The trawling engineers have accepted the masters’ terms, , and the strike has ended. 18,000 WORKLESS. Received November 4, 10.40 a.m. LONDON, November 3. There are 18,000 out of work in consequence of the taxi-drivers’ strike. RAILWAYMEN’S GRIEVANCES. A Conference. LONDON. November 3. The Premier, the Hon. Sydney Buxton, and Mr. Askwith and representatives of the railway , companies and workers’conferred at .Downing Street. The purpose of the conference has not been disclosed. THE SYDNEY STRIKE. Federal Premier Firm, Law to be Enforced. MELBOURNE, November 3. In the House, in reply to questions, Mr Eisher said the Government was doing, and would do, everything possible to terminate the wharf labourers’ strike. No matter what other Governments did, the Federal Government could be relied on to enforce the law. The Attorney-General declared that the State Government could take action if it desired. .The Commonwealth Government could do nothing until it became an inters State dispute. An overwhelming majority of the men were opposed to the strike. INDUSTRIAL COURT. SYDNEY, November 3. At the sitting of the Industrial Court, Judge Soholes read a letter from the Hon. A. C. Carmichael, officially notifying the existence of the strike, and asking for the appointment of a Board to deal with the trouble. Judge Scholes directed the constitution of the Board, consisting of representatives of the employers and waterside workers, by Friday next. If by then the two sides are not nominated, representatives of the Court will make the nominations. r - POLICE LEAVE CANCELLED. SYDNEY, November 3. In consequence of the strike, all police leave has been cancelled. Sunday off has been stopped. A HOPEFUL FEELING. SYDNEY, November 3. Strike affairs are at a standstill pending the wharf labourers’ meeting tomorrow, regarding .which there is a hopeful feeling. Some clerks have declined to continue to work on the wharves. A meeting of •the Clerks’ Union is to be held on Monday to discuss their attitude towards the strike FEDERAL AND STATE ARBITRATION Received November 4, 9.25 a.m. SYDNEY. November 4. That Unionists prefer Federal to State arbitration is shown by-the fact that 69 Unions have been registered under the Federal Act. TO-DAY’S MASS MEETING. Strike Denounced. V Received November 4, 9.25 a.m. SYDNEY, November 4. The Hon. A. C. Carmichael has intimated his willingness to attend to-day’s meeting of l wharf labourers and address the men. Judged by the number of individual complaints by the strikers, be hoped the men would to-day voto for a return to work. That result, however, was expected at the previous meetings, and an uncertainty prevails. MELBOURNE, November 4. Mr Spence, a member of the House of Representatives, and president of the Australian Workers’ Union, lias declared that no Union can support the wharf labourers’ action, which'was reprehensible from any view pointThe Council of the Waterside Workers has forwarded a resolution to be read at to-day’s meeting regretting the men’s action, and calling upon them forthwith to resume work on the terms of the agreement honourably entered into. LITHCOW STRIKE RIOTS. Received November 4, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, November 4. The Attorney-General is not proceeding further in the cases against Dixon and Cairnes in connection with the Lithgow riots, in which the jury failed to agree. Tram Strikers Resume. FREMANTLE, November 4. The tram strikers resumed temporarily, when promised an inquiry.