SHIPPING STRIKE Support And Opposition Met

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 13

SHIPPING STRIKE Support And Opposition Met

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, June 12. y harf labourers in three of Britain’s biggest ports have promised to help the country’s striking merchant seamen by banning British or foreign ships at the seamen’s request.

Seamen received news of the London, Liverpool and Hull wharf labourers willingness to “black” ships as the crippling strike went into its twenty-eighth day today.

Unofficial Ijaison committees of the wharf labourers took the decision last night at a meeting in the east coast port of H’ 11.

Earlier yesterday the seamen had failed to win support from the International Transport Federation—representing

seven million workers in 80 countries—and also from Britain’s Trade Union Congress.

The international federation had said it was withholding global support pending current efforts in Britain to settle the seamen's claim for a 40-hour working week instead of the present 56 hours.

Hundreds of seamen at the world’s busiest passenger port, Dover, revolted against union officials at a mass meeting yesterday. They booed speakers and shouted: “We want to go back to work.” The dissident men, most of

whom work on cross-channel ferries and live at home, plan to hold an “end the strike” meeting at Dover later today.