LABOUR DISPUTES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17813, 12 July 1923, Page 9

LABOUR DISPUTES.

BRITISH COCKERS' STRIKE. WORK RESUMED AT SEVERAL PORTS. j (BT CABLE—MESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND !T.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, July 10. Tho dockers' "unofficial strike" oommitte.' decided to send a deputation to the Transport Workers' Conference today to ask the Union to negotiate with the employers for a resumption of work at tiie old rates. All the dockers at Grimsby and Liverpool havo resumed work, but 11,000 are still out at Birkenhead, and fifty vessels are iieid up at .Manchester, where 5400 men are on strike. Laier. The dockers are returning to work at the lower rate of pay in Liverpool, Grimsby, and Caid.ff. The strikers in London have decided to remain out. NOVA SCOTIA MINERS' STRIKE. (Received July 11th, 10.5 p.m.) Sm\fEY (Nova Scotia), July 10. Eighteen hundred . miners have struck as a protect against the arrest of Livingstone and SlacLachlan. [A previous message said Dan Livingston, president, and James MacLachliri, secretary of the local branch of the United Mine Workers of America, were arrested, following their circulation of a letter urging a general coal-miners' strike ea a protest against polio© iind military measures in connexion with the steel strike.] NEW SOUTH WALES COALMINERS.' (Received July 11th, 10.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 11. The coal conference resumed to-day in camera. No details are available regarding the proceedings. [A previous message said: It is reported that the coal-miners have decided not to concede the owners the right to dismiss men as proposed by the Hon. C. W. Oakes (Chief Secretary). The conference will resume to-morrow, but a deadlock is anticipated on this issue.]