THE POSTMEN'S GRIEVANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1890, Page 3

THE POSTMEN'S GRIEVANCE.

BOYCOTTING THE BLACKLEGS. THE AUTHORITIES OBDURATE. London, July 9. THE postmen are willing nob to go out on strike before the 21stin_tant, providing the blacklegs at present employed are dismissed. They intimate that deliveries will be refused to-day if the blacklegs arc still employed. A meeting of 4,000 postmen was held at Cambewell, D Surrey, at midnight, when comnlaints were made of numerous blacklegs being concealed in the vaults of the central The men agreed to retrain from attendance at every office until notified thab t be whole of the blacklegs had been disThe 'secretary of tho Union advised the Ken nob to injure blacklegs in any way, bub endeavour to gain redress in a peaceful manner. , . The sorters have joined the Union. Mr Pearse, the correspondent oE the "'Daily News," was mobbed as a spy. One hundred men, who joinorl in attacking* the blacklegs engaged in tho parcel department of the Post Office, have been dismissed by tho postal authorities, who decline to pledge themselves not to employ additional labour until the 21st mat., and it is believed that the postmen will be compelled to yield. Anyhow, the officials are confident they will be able to conduct the service for two days. The deliveries have been delayed, and there iB trouble in several of the district offices. A hundred postmen from the largo branch office in Leicestershire Square have been dismissed. Blackwood personally dispersed the rioters ab the Mount Pleasant Post Office and afterwards proceeded to the central office, where blacklegs were working alongB ide postmen guarded by policemen. Finally the men succumbed and delivered the mails.