THE DOCKERS' LEVY AT HOME.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5927, 4 September 1890, Page 3

THE DOCKERS' LEVY AT HOME.

INPORTANT MEETING OF UNIONISTS. THE SHIP-OWNERS ASSOCIATION. [SI'IiCIA. TO I'UI'.SS ASSOCIATION. — COI'YEIOHT."] (Received September 1, 11.30 a.m.) Lo.vdo.n-, September 3. The dockers have levied upon a membership of .'>;.!,und, mid it is hoped that the waterside unions totalling half-a-milliou will .oniiiir in the movement to aid the Au. t aliaii strike fund.

At a meeting of unionists, at which the mill' prominent leader- wero absent, i'iUott said lie preferred that the ship-owners should be organised, as it would enable them to appreciate the uiiioni. •*. A better limine.' committee was appointed, 'fillett chairman, Burns treasurer, ami .Maun

secretary. The several unions are competing as to which .hall head the sup.-cription li.t in md of Austialia. The dockers' invested iiuiiii. have beei. spent, and they had to borrow in order to remit i'IUOO to Australia. The Sl.ip-o'.viars' Association request ocean ship couq-au'cs to abstain from coastal trallic pending the .settlement of tho . tiikc, and lvipiest that unionists shall not be employed in either loadim. or unloading Ve.-eD at London. ft is expected that tho do--:-:.-r.. will r,.fu_. (c unlo-i.-l ihe homeward M-,5.-l- to r. taii-.i, en the _hip-o;s n,rs. The ship-owners will „■., ~,, t i„. detVi.-i ye, and will not att.c-k liie ii::i.-.|,i:t sli i,|ii oU.icke.l.