THE LABOR UNREST.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3327, 20 September 1911, Page 5

THE LABOR UNREST.

PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S POLICY.

“WILL STAND OR FALL BY !T.”

CUNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION- —COI’YEIGUTJ MELBOURNE, 'Sept. 19. A Trades Hall deputation waited upon Mr. Fisher, and discussed the subject of preference to unionists. Mr. Fisher stated definitely that the Government’s policy was to give preference to unionists. They would stand or fall by that. It would apply even to clerks seeking temporary employment with the Government.'

THE RAILWAY COMMISSION.

“UNION RECOGNITION WOULD BE

DISASTROUS.”

LONDON, Sept. 18. Lord Claude Hamilton gave evidence before the Railway Commission that tlie majority of the Great Eastern railway men desired to deal direct with employers),, as the recognition of trad© unions would lead to claims that would be disastrous to the country commercially, and enable the • organised few to tyrannise over the unorganised majority. '

STRIKE ON IRISH LINES.

ASSUMING SERIOUS. PROPORTIONS,

The strike in the south-west of. Ireland has assumed serious proportions. Dublin, Limerick, Ennis, and Tipperary are isolated. The strikers burned tlie house of a signalman who remained at work at Tliurles. Two revolver shots were fired, and the signalman bad a narrow escape. The strike has extended to Queenstown, disorganising the American mails.

RIOTING IN SPAIN.

A REVOLUTIONARY DISTURBANCE

MADRID, Sept. 18. A general revolutionary strike has occurred at Valencia. Martial law has been proclaimed, and troops have occupied the town. Riots also occurred at Saragossa, where several -persons were killed and others injured. LABOR’S RECENT RISING. HOPE IN HEARTS OF SLUM DWELLERS.” LONDON, Sept. lb. Mr Masterman, M.P., addressing tne National Brotherhood at Albert Hall, declared that the recent uprising of unskilled labor was due to hope entering the hearts of the slum dwellers. When society learned that the carters who had resumed work were satisfied to toil for twelve hours a day, and that the girls and mothers of Bermondsey were living in a new world because they had gained an extra shilling weekly, he thought the lesson about the need of setting our house in order was worth the tumult of a strike.

THE N.S.W. COLLIERIES WAGES BOARD NOT WANTED. SYDNEY, Sept. 19. The president of the Colliery Employees’ Federation declares that he would rather stop the industry than submit to the Wages Board. The federation is endeavoring to settle tlie wheeler trouble, and is trying hard to prevent a general stoppage.