WHAT LABOR DEMANDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3292, 10 August 1911, Page 5

WHAT LABOR DEMANDS.

INDUSTRIAL UNREST AT HOME.

SEEKING FOR A SETTLEMENT.

FIVE THOUSAND CARTERS STRIKE. H - ' fe r* $ - •'. :u . a ■ [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, August 8. Encouraged by Mr Havelock Wilson’s success in the seamen and firemen’s dispute, Mr Gosling, secretary of the transport workers, has seized the opportunity to become dictator of the transport world. The coal porters v'ant a revision of their tariff. The lightermen want the abolition of the distinction between daily and weekly men’s pay, while the stevedores have not yet formulated their demands. Mr Ask with. Secretary of the Board of Trade, is interviewing the various sections in the hope of discovering a basis of settlement. Great supplies of frozen meat are held up, and prices -at Smith field are rising. Five thousand carters have struck. The .guards at Aldershot have been doubled, and similar precautions for the security of the magazine are being observed as at Chatham.

EXTENDING TO AMERICA

SEAMEN AND RAILWAY' WORKERS.

NEW YORK, August 8. Fifty British tramp steamers are threatened' with being rendered idle. The _Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union in Britain has ordered the men not to sign for the return voyage unless granted increases of wages, similar to those granted in Britain. Chicago advices report strained relations between the employees and the Western Tail way authorities. A big strike may ensue.

PRICE OF FROZEN BEEF.

ADVANCE OF 3d PED POUND

(Received August 10, 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, August 9. Frozen beef has advanced threepence per pound owing to the nondelivery of chilled shipments.