SEAMEN TO STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 204, 29 August 1910, Page 5

SEAMEN TO STRIKE.

JETTBOPEAN MOVEMENT. Ki5,000 AFFECTED. LONDON, August 28. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Times" reports that the International Transport Workers' Federation has une J animously agreed to an international a shipping strike because the owners refused to discuss the proposals of the European Seamen's Unions for the eat tablishment of a Conciliation Board. t The date and time of the strike are a to be kept secret. 2 The decision of the Federation has oc- ,_ casioned the greatest surprise. a _ It affects 135.000 sailors and firemen, „ including 70,000 British sailors and fire- ' men. n Many newspapers consider the Copen- ._ ; hagen report premature, and suggest that c' it has been furnished by interested i parties. 1 SHIPOWNERS imCONCEBNED. 7 , EBPOKTED DEFEAT OF THB a PKQPOSAL. i (Received 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, August 28. The "Morning Post" states that the proposal of Mr Joseph Haveloek Wilson, genj J eral secretary of the Kational Seamen's 2 Union, to declare an international strike, £ : was defeated for the present. j The "Daily News" says the report is untrue ; and shipowners of the various ports declare themselves undisturbed because the men are divided, and Wilson's party is without funds.