RUSH TO THE DOCKS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 182, 31 July 1912, Page 5

RUSH TO THE DOCKS.

MORE WORKERS THAN JOBS.

COMPLAINTS AGAINST UNION.

FREE LABOURERS CHASED.

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LONDON, July 30. There was a rush of strikers to the dioeks to-day to secure employment, more applying than could be engaged. They bitterly complained against the union.

Some of the dockers resented being required to undertake not to demand production of union tickets by other workmen, and disorders occurred! at the Royal Albert and Victoria Docks, where strikers, after being re-engaged, chased the free labourers.

Many fights occurred, and black eyes were frequent in the docks. The Strike Committee sat for three hours and reaffirmed Saturday's decision to call the strike off and ordered a resumption under the old conditions. Where those are not obtainable the men will remain out and the committee in such cases will deal with 'the individual firms

singly. The committee foresee the probability of a prolonged guerilla struggle. Mr. Ramsay MaeDonald and other Labour members of the House of Commons attended the committee meeting after the decision and concurred in the course taken.

Two thousand bargemen on the Lower Thames and Medway have resumed. Meetings of sailors and firemen on Tower Hill, Poplar, and Canningtown in overwhelming majorities, resolved to resume.

BOSTON STRIKE ENDED.

NEW YORK, July 30.

The strike of conductors and motormen on thc Boston elevated railway has ended. It lasted 53 days. The striker* gained all the points they contested. The strike cost over a million and a-quarter dollars.