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Show TROUBLES ! IN LONDON England Starts N e w Year With Many Labor Problems to Solve London. Jan. 25. England started jlhp New Year with a strike of the itajcicah drivers, and if the threats of thr- lahor leaders aie onK partially carried out the present ear will prove an even more serious one In-I In-I d ustriall than iht which preceded it. and l!12 broke all records. De-1 spite this the trade of the country i likewise tirokc all records While the taxi strike causes much 'nron vouience In tuc city, it I the disputes In the industrial di6trcts that are creatng the greatest uneasiness. uneasi-ness. The coal miners of Wales, who were the hardest fighters In the last coal strike, arc again restless, beinp dissatisfied with the award of the commissioner appointed under the ac t passed l parliament to end the lust strike, fixing the minimum wge A ceneral conference is to be held to deal with the matter It is certain that the owners will tight acainst any increase in the cost of production, as they have already lost to America contracts for the Italian government , end Egyptian state railways because of the high price at which they made tenders. There are. however. two points against a general strike of the miners min-ers The last struggle almost exhausted ex-hausted the funds of the unions, and : under au old agreement the miner's wages are Increased as the contract j price of coal is raised. As this price j has gone up. the miners, in the north of Kngland. at any rate would 'pro'nably ! auiinst another contest with the owners. Another serious trouble threatened ; Is that arisinc from the agitation ol the seamen aud firemen for a sys-tematisation sys-tematisation of the rates of wages land conditions of service on board ship The meu under the leadership (of Havelock Wilson, have been airi-tatinp airi-tatinp for this for years. Thev have a6krd time and time again that a conciliation board be appointed by I the owners and unions to standardize the wages and conditions, but the hulk of the owners have refused. In the hone of winninp rheir point the men went on strike in 1011 and de-J Banded a lie increase In waRes The : big companies granted the wages. and the smaller firms cot their men baCK at the old wages and conditions It is for these latter that the union is now fishtinc: Mr. Wilson has announced that ' when the union had exhausted all means of dlp'om; the executie would fix a date when the seamen would take a "vacation In our union'' he explained, the word 'strike' is a very vulgar and nasty word lo use.'' More trouble too Is brewing in the otton trade The Operative Cotton Rplhnars have given ootice of withdrawal with-drawal from the Brooklands ajiee-;ment. ajiee-;ment. which has been In operation foi some ears. and which covered all disputes In the cotton spinning trade controlled hv the Emplovers federation The action of the spinners spin-ners was determined by the alleged ineffectiveness of the agreement in dealing with complaint of bad mate- 1 rial which have been a continual i source of nnnojance to the owners and operatives, and which have increased in-creased enormously recentlv The card room workers also have grievances griev-ances against the agreement, and tnev ioo have piven tbe necessarv month s notice of withdrawal The London bakers are also pre- paring far a struggle for better wages and Shorter hours I s0M,e parts of j London he condition of the working 'bakers is deplorable Thev have to work long hours in poorly ventilated cellars for the merest pittance They have organized, and by a large majority ma-jority have apieed to go on strike un-less un-less their demands are granted. Throughout the railway world there is considerable unrest over whSI he men call victimisation" They claim thnt auv of their uum-ber uum-ber who are known to be active lu trade unionism are Quickly Rotten rid oi In the companies or are put ;,i such work that thev cannot readllv meO't the other workmen On- big company, however. ha9 found a vr;i out of having continual dispute with the men. This is the London and Northwestern, the management o! which has appointed a 'Grievance Hearer This man. who bad proved himself to be a sood conciliator w;is chosen to keep In touch with the men aud investigate their srleances I Tims tar ihe company announces the experiment has been a r g cess '"it It was pointed our thai this was not a case of creating a post 1 and finding a man for it. but rather of a sphere of activities being suv-jested suv-jested hv ihe personal qualities of-aj certain man. sj l'iiree;,!-a!iln-sp I? .so cropping l"aj 'again alonv, thr L- 'ivlun dock? ovr f(T C, the slowness with win,!, i is allejssl'Vie, "i I !( ' i.oii.1..,m i!ti:,,-it Is rein- IK -1 Hi- i nsr i. , n v. h. . nt on at riK WJJ n, las) vear 'n were brought frrl the uutsiuo to till their places Stt Jjjjpj although the docks are as bus)' 9CU' cannot Le found for 'IK The result is that manv of the i men have found themselves u ithoiWs employment duilnr the winter SjB the distress In ihe dock districts fc-beeu fc-beeu more serious than ever befOH I I |