THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 152, 28 June 1911, Page 5

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

SPREAD OF THE TROUBLE.

UNORGANISED OPPOSITION,

CHINESE ON BRITISH VESSELS

(By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.)

(Received 11 a.m.)

LONDON, June 27

The confusion prevalent over the shipping strike is due to shipowners in each port neotiating with the seamen independently of other ports. Many of the owners are urging the Shipping Federation to abandon the policy of non-intervention, and formulate a fixed scale of wages; if this be not accepted, the Federation and other shipowners to lay up their ships. Ben Tillett has issued a manifesto in which he states that 40,000 Asiatics are employed on the British mercantile marine, and that the Shipping Federation are shipping Chinese coolies in neater numbers than the Tory Government shipped them to South Africa. He declares that leading Liberal finauciers demand this as the price of supporting the Liberal party. Mr. Tom Mann states that 65 per cent of the shipping firms at Liverpool have already granted the advance in wages, including the Gulf line.

P. AND O. CREWS JOIN IN. ov off BOOKERS AH3 CARTERS COME ™ OUT. it. w: (Received 11-40 a.m.) 15 LONDON, June 27. ™ The crews oi three of the Peninsular a. and Orient line at Tilbury have struck. t , The carters and dockers at Liverpool a have joined the strikers. ii The Pacific line has conceded the sea- s men's and firemen's demand for an inCK.ifC. C The dockers at Manchester and lyne t . have struck, while a fleet of colliers on the a Tync have been thrown idle. ; ' Shipping in Sunderland is paralysed. I \ thousand dockers at Glasgow have istr-ek. . _ ! f I Forty-one coasting shipownmg farms . : 1 n-ct in Newcastle and i ejected the de- , mand for an increase. 1 '