THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 154, 30 June 1911, Page 5

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

RIOTING AT HULL.

MORE CREWS COME OTTT.

SCORES OF VESSELS IDLE.

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

(Received 11.55 a.m.)

LONDON, June 29.

The seamen s strike continues to spread, and more crews are coming out daily Scores of vessels are now idle, and on the Mersey along 50 vessels, including several Atlantic liners, are laid up. A mob at Hull, hearing that the firemen had refused to strike, attacked Joseph Ranks' flounnills and Reckitt's starch and blue mills.

They rushed the buildings, but the police ejected them.

The mob then stoned the police and broke the windows.

Women and children were trampled upon when the police charged, injuring a dozen men. They finally turned the hose on the mob.

News that Mr. G. R. Askwith, of the Board of Trade, was on his way to Hull to confer with the employers and strike leaders, had the effect of stopping the riot.

Mr. Askwith attended a. conference of the parties to-day, but the result has not yet been announced.

The districts around Hull are suffering from scarcity of supplies, prices for which are rapidly rising. Two hundred thousand quarters of grain cannot be unloaded, and most of the grain warehouses in the north of England are empty.

Several mills are on the verge of stop page, and work has been stopped at several collieries. Practically the whole working population is involved.

Detachments of Sheffield and Birmingham police, which have been drafted to Hull, charged with truncheons a section of a mob of 10,000 perambulating the city, calling on mill hands to cease work to help to paralyse the trade of the port.

A number of creosote works and timber mills have been forced to stop.

The employees of a large flour mill in Hull have demanded an increase in wages. A thousand police are now in Hull.

The dockers at Grimsby have struck for increased pay, and also an hour less per day.

The crew of the Merspy lightship has struck, while all the crews of vessels inport at Dutton have also come out.

The Central Railway Company has arranged terms for its own sailors and firemen.

The Cunard and Canadian Pacific lines have recognised all the unions, including the dockers.

Five hundred steward? on the combine lines at Liverpool struck.

The White Star liner Zealand was unable to moor at the landing stage, and her passengers were lanfTed on a tender.

A conference of 100 shipowners of the United Kingdom decided to-day that a moderate increase of wages might be given at certain ports, and in view of present trade conditions they recommend the Shipowners' . Association to fix a standard of wages for respective districts. They advised the Shipping Federation to extend its functions to cover wages disputes, and unanimously decided to oppose recognition of the sailors "and firemen's unions, and the National Transport Workers' Federation.