SHIPPING STRIKE BEGINS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1154, 15 June 1911, Page 5

SHIPPING STRIKE BEGINS.

INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT.

SEAMEN'S UNION SCHEME NOW MATURING. WORLD-WIDE PLANS. By TelcEraph—Press Association—CoDsrlsht London, June 13. It is alleged that the international seamen's strike, which Mr. Havclock Wilson, secretary of the International Union of Seafarers, lias been endeavouring to organiso for over a year past, is now commencing. Mr. Wilson recently declared that it had been resolved that on ono particular day and at a particular hour all the men engaged in the world's shipping should take a rest if they did not get the justice they asked for. It is now stated that the men at Southampton, will go out to-morrow. The list of grievances and requirements drawn up by the Seamen's Union and submitted to the shipowners' organisation, the International Shipping Federation, included the following:—Conciliation Board, a minimum rato of wages, a manning scale for stokehold, deck, and galley, abolition of medical examination by Shipping Federation doctor, hours of labour and rates of overtime to be fixed, and improved forecastle accommodation. MOVEMENT AT AMSTERDAM. THE STRIKE BEGINS. The Hague, June 13. The seamen's strike has begun at Amsterdam. POSITION IN AMERICA. MEN BLOCKED BT IMMIGBATION LAWS. (Kcc. Juno 15, 0.20 a.m.) Now York, June 14. The seamen aboard British ships in the United States ports will not bo ablo to join in the strike, as the United States immigration laws will prevent them from landing from the vessels in which they are employed.

The International Committee of Seafarers' Unions met nt Greenwich on May 1 autl debated the question of an international strike. Delegates attended from the Seamen's and Firemen's Unions of Grrat Britain, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Norway, and Sweden. It was decided to ask the International Shipping Federation to receive- a deputation from the committee, with a vie\v to difvcussing the question of seamen's grievances. Should tho Federation refuse to meet the deputation, it was agreed to de■clare an international strike, for which arrangements were made and a date fixed. The German delegate (Paul Mnllor) announced that tbc German Union had come into line, and, speaking as the representative of 160,000 transport workers, to stated that in the event of a strike there was a probability of the transport workers ceasing work in sympathy with the seamen.