STRIKE MAY END

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14710, 30 June 1948, Page 3

STRIKE MAY END

VOTE TO RETURN TO WORK

11,000- Men Agree ToProposal

Mersey Workers Expected

To Follow Lead

London, June 29

There arc hopes that the dock strike in London and on Merseyside will be over by tomorrow. Mr Attlee, who told the Plousc of Commons this, added that regulations under the State of Emergency had been drafted, and if it was still necessary to issue them, this would be done tomorrow.

I, Earlier, 6,000 London dockers voted to go back to work tomorrow morning. A resolution calling for a return to work was put to them by the unofficial leaders who have been running ike strike, and fewer than JUu dockers voted against it. At other London meetings nearly 5,000 dockers, stevedors and lightermen also voted to start work again tomorrow .

If the strike ends, the General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, Mr Arthur Deacon, will meet the Dock Labour Board on Thursday to start discussions on matters brought to light in the dispute.

About 2,000 servicemen have been unloading ships at the London docks today. Union officials believe that most of the Merseyside strikers will follow the lead of the London dockers.

Two thousand at Birkenhead are starting work again tonight, and 2,000 Liverpool men are going back comorrow morning. Others are stiil meeting to decide what they will do.