STRIKES IN BRITAIN.
RAILWAY MEN STOP WORK. PARALYSIS OF TRADE FEARED. By ToJcEraDU—Press Association—Oopyrizht London, August 7. There is a serious ferment among the railway workers of Liverpool and Manchester. , A lock-out of four thousand men at tho Lancashire and Yorkshire- Railway Company's locomotive works was followed by a strike of fourteen hundred goods-porters, who demanded higher wages and shorter hours.
The trouble is spreading to other companies,. The London and North-Western goods porters havo already struck, and somo "passenger porters have struck at Liverpool. A general paralysis of the railways is threatened. Twelve thousand men are now idle. DOCKERS STILL OUT.
GENERAL SETTLEMENT DEMANDED. London, August 7. Although Sir A. K. Eollit's award in the London dockers' dispyte favours the men, tho dominant feature of the situation is that no branch of the National Transport Workers' Federation will resume work until the demands of all sections are satisfied. The claims of the lightermen, stevedores, coal porters, and carmen remain unsettled. The Federation threatens to bring out a hundred thousand men unless their demands are speedily satisfied.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1201, 9 August 1911, Page 5
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177STRIKES IN BRITAIN. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1201, 9 August 1911, Page 5
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