LONDON DOCK STRIKE
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DISPUTE WITH TRANSPORT UNION (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. Nearly 2000 dockers and stevedores in the London docks struck yesterday. The trouble spread to-day, when hundreds more joined the strikers, whose dispute is with Britain’s biggest trade union, the Transport and General Workers’ Union. Another 800 men have decided to join the strike on April 24. Complete paralysis of the docks is threatened. Yesterday. 16 vessels were affected by the strike. The men struck in support of three men who were expelled for their part in last year’s strike of Canadian seamen, which tied up shipping in London and other British ports. Five of the ships affected by the strike are vessels carrying enough meat for half a week’s ration for the whole of Britain. Members of the unofficial London Port Workers’ Committee decided last night -to ask all sections of the Transport and General Workers’ Union throughout Britain to support the strike.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26093, 21 April 1950, Page 7
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