Fresh strikes have occurred during the week in the engineering
and shipbuilding trades, especially in Glasgow, Belfast, and the Port of London. The Trade Union Executives, which recently agreed with the associated employers to introduce a normal working week of forty-sovou hours, have been flouted by some of the local Trade Union leaders. In Glasgow a general strike was attemptedon Monday. It was promoted by Trade Union leaders and shop stewards, who resent the control of their London Executives, and would have Scottish Labour acting independently of English Labour. But the advanced Socialists who Buffered
so heavy a defeat in the local elections last December took an active part in the strike agitation by way of revenge on the majority of their fellow-citizens. The strike up to the present chiefly affects the shipyards, where strikes are endemics. The strikers' nominal demand is for a forty-hours week.
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