THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
MORE MEN COME OUT.
BIG LINES GRANT DEMANDS.
BOARD OF TRADE TO INTERVENE. (6y. Cable.—Press -Association.—Copyright.)
(Received 11.15 a.m.)
LONDON, June 28
Four thousand National Union dock labourers at Liverpool have struck to secure recognition and against the employment of non-unionists.
All the crews in port thereupon abandoned the vessels.
An aggregate of 9000 dockers and seafarers are idle and shipping is completely paralysed.
Three thousand dockers and a thousand seamen at Manchester, and 700 ha-nfling timber at Hartlepool struck. There is a great accumulation of fish, butter, and eggs at Hull, and the flour mills are short of grain. The Allan, Nelson, and Pacific lines at Liverpool have conceded all the demands, including those of the dockers. The Board of Trade will intervene at Hull.
A conference of shipowners in London favoured the increase in wages, but declined to recognise the unions. The Carters* Union and Dock Labourers' Union in Liverpool have decided not to handle goods belonging to the firms involved in the strike. As a result a number of shipowners have conceded the men's demands.
In Amsterdam work is at a standstill on 20 out of 35 steamers.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 153, 29 June 1911, Page 5
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194THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE. Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 153, 29 June 1911, Page 5
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