THE STRIKES ENDING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1171, 5 July 1911, Page 7

THE STRIKES ENDING.

SEAMEN RETURNING TO WORKk By Telegraph—Press Association—Oor/yrlßht London, July 3. The seamen's strikes at Hull and Liverpool have been settled. The Atlantic liners Carmania and Empress of Britnin have sailed. All the dockers at Glasgow liaye struck. The Seamen's Union advises them to return (o work, taking eight minutes to sling the bales instead of five, and generally to work according to tho wnges paid. It is expected that work will shortly bo resumed. "EXTINCTION OF TRADES UNIONISM." When the last, mail left England n statement on the attitude of the International Shipping Federation (Limited) toward the seamen's and other labour unions was being circulated by tho men among all the trado councils of the country, to enlist their sympathy and support when the strike was declared. The International Committee of Seafarers' Unions, by whom tho statement had been prepared, described tho grievances of seamen resulting from tho "aggressive policy" of the federation. Tho objects of that body were stated to bo "first, to form an international federation of employers, tho individual members of which'are to be mutually insured against eventual strikes; then, after participating these strikes by provocation, to crush them in detail with a. numerous and mobile army of organised strikebreakers." The committee charged the federation with aiming at the extinction of trade unionism, not only among seamen, but among other branches of nansport workers, and they invited tho Trade Councils to join them in fighting a federation of employers which by its power threatened tho interests of organised labour generally.