DOCKERS ANNOYED
AT MAYOR’S REMARKS ATTACK ON MORALS (Australian Press Association.) London, November 21. The local trade union secretary had the greatest difficulty in preventing twelve hundred dockers at Manchester from ceasing work and marching to the Town Hall to protest against the Mayor of Salford’s statement at a dinner that the dockers took up ’ with lasses and lived in single rooms, producing a population which was a menace to the town and leaving them chargeable on the rates. The secretary declared this a malicious attack on the morals of the dockers and their wives. “I feel,” he said, “like handing him over to the women.” The Mayor privately received a deputation of protesting dockers and refused to apologise. He had not meant all dockers.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 51, 23 November 1928, Page 11
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