150 VESSELS IDLE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1170, 4 July 1911, Page 5

150 VESSELS IDLE

AT HULL.

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE. FRESH PROPOSALS FOR.SETTLING THE DISPUTE. FOOD PRICES RISING. By Telegraph-Press Association-CopyriEht Some Hull boats have been diverted to the Tjne to unloa.l. Tho Royston Grange, with a partly delivered cargo of frozen meat, has arrived at Newcastle from the Thames with a non-union crew. The dockers rofused to unload her. Tho corn market at Newcastle is almost blocked with foreign wheat, which is held at an advance of from threepence to rixpenco a quarter. English wheat has advanced a shilling. Flour is scarce and dearer. '/ London, July 2. Crews at Liverpool are rejoining tho liners in anticipation of a settlement with the dockers. There have been two outbreaks of fire on tho steamer Canada. A hundred and fifty vessels are idle at Hull. Thousands of men are parading the streets v and holding meetings to-day, and collecting a relief fund. Many grocers are unable to supply flour on presentation of charity tickets by starved people; hence the dockers havo decided not to interfere with the removal .of foodstuffs from warehouses to the shops. ATLANTIC. LINERS BLOCKED. POSITION OF THE DOCKERS. (Rec. July 3, 9.40 p.m.) London, July 3. The Seamen's Strike Committee at Liverpool has promised that if ,tho recalcitrant dockers will resume work on the river wherever the union is recognised, they will support them to obtain union rates, unless these aro conceded before the end of the month. Tho men, however, are unwilling to obey. The steward of the steamer Canada has been arrested in connection with the outbreaks of fire. Owing to the strike on the Carmania and the Empress of Britain, aboard which are Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Prime Minister, and the Canadian Contingent, the boats are unable to sail. The liner St. Louis has picked up the mails at Queenstown. Flour at Hull which has lately been selling at Is. 6d., is now quoted at 2s. 2d. a stone. The butter supplies are almost exhausted, and sugar has risen a farthing a pound. The railway men are resolved, to strike if they are asked to deal with the transit of goods which have been handled by blackleg seamen. Sectional meetings of the strikers at Hull have resolved to resume work if the employers, besides adhering to their recent offer, will augment all the dockers' wages, and meet representatives of all sections to discuss a settlement of the men's 'grievances. Mr. G. H. Askwith, of the Board of T'rade Labour Department, has been invited to reopen a conference.