LONDON DOCK DISPUTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 267, 9 November 1889, Page 5

LONDON DOCK DISPUTES.

PROPOSED BOARD OF CONCILIATION.

London, November 7. The London Chamber of Commerce is arranging for the establishment of a Board of Conciliation for the port and trade of London.

The official balance-sheet of the dock strike has been ab length published. _ It shows that the Australian subscriptions amounted t0.£29,000. Among the payments made occur the following items :— To tradesmen for food relief, £21,675; band, £900 ; banners, pickets, and delegates, £1,550; blacklegs, £950; law expenses, £450 ; assistance to Silvertown and tailor strikers, £350; Charrington relief, East End, £250; wages box collectors, £120; repayment to different Unions of assistance advanced to the strikers, £11,000.; miscellaneous, including cabs, £800. The balance in hand is shown as £7,000.

Burns is leading the lightermen in their resistance to Lord Brassey's award, but it is hoped that Cardinal Manning and the Lord Mayor will be able to settle the difficulty to-day. The boycott of masters begins to-morrow, unless matters are satisfactorily arranged l?y them. The dock labourers in South London have struck for payment during meal times. The Dockers' Executive have declined to subsidise the strike of dock labourers threatened on Monday unless all employees are Unionists. %