DECISION OF DOCKERS' UNION EXECUTIVE
AGAINST A STRIKE. FREE FIGHT AT POPLAR. STRONG LANGUAGE BY BEN TILLETT. (Received June 12, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, lltli June. The executive of the Dockers' Union, embracing workers in. -Liverpool, Scotland, and Ireland, has decided not to strike. A free fight occurred at Poplar, where strike breakers, who are in a, majority, resented the action of pickets and attacked them. * Mr. Ben Tillett, speaking at ' Tower Hill, said: — "The employers want the Government to turn out the soldiery to shoot you. The Tories are demanding your children's blood. If our men are going to be murdered, I am going to Lord Devonp^rt, who has been responsible for the strike." ' [Lord Devonport is chairman of the Port Authority of London.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 139, 12 June 1912, Page 7
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