THIRTY THOUSAND IDLE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1923, Page 7

THIRTY THOUSAND IDLE

PERISHABLE GOODS SUFFER

SEIJT-APPOINTED LEADERS.

(UNITED PRE 63 ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, 4th July

Thirty thousand dockers are now idle, of whom 14,000 are in London.

The Corinthic and the Pakeha are waiting to take in large cargoes. A number of heavy vans with pianos and other goods for Auckland are standing at the dock gates, the horses having been taken away.

Incoming boats from New iZealand and Australia, laden with meat and other foodstuffs, aye also lying idle. The general impression is that the strike will not last long, as the men are receiving no strike pay.

Later. A feature of the strike is the activity nf a number of young men, who, without any authority, have appointed themselves strike leaders., The . dock and shipping companies thus far have made 110 effort to engage alternative labour. The transport workers carrying meat mid other perishable- goods arc being pressed to join the strike in sympathy With the dockers, but the union'leaders decline, saying the transporters' policy J« to honour the national agreement. The workers at the Smithfield and Oovent Garden markets are also being! urged to

R^ 1? an^V^ B stailds™ are: the Kojal Albert, George the Fifth, East rJ ew^ ICtT° n> Surrey> Commercial, ™A tII 2 dl?' but St- Katharine's and London docks are not affected, and the stoppages at Tilbury are only par-

The Manchester and Salford dockers havo decided to strike to-morrow A mass meeting at Newcastle of 5000 dockers broke up in disorder. Five officials O f the Transport WmW Union endeavoured to address the meet nig, but were not allowed to be heard