DOCKERS' STRIKE

Evening Star, Issue 18331, 19 July 1923, Page 6

DOCKERS' STRIKE

INTIMIDATION METHODS.

IDLE SHIPS AND IDLE MEN.

Press Association—-By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, July 17. While a few of tho older dockers are inclined to return to work, tho majority of tho men remain idle.

" Tho Thames presents a remarkable sight. There are hundreds of idle ships at anchor. Several have been ordered to go to soa and pitch rotten cargoes overboard.

Tho carters last night were offered £5 for every load of fruit cleared. Three drivers who ventured were severely handled, and their carts were overturned.

A crowd stopped a lorry laden with beef in Commercial road, East End, and began to help themselves. Tho police drew their truncheons, and cleared the street, tho crowd stampeding. One policeman was injured by a stone thrown during tho molee. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

FRUIT CARGOES,

A SERIOUS POSITION,

LONDON, July 17,

Tho landing of fruit from overseas vessels is being seriously interfered with by the strikers’ methods of intimidation. A meeting of fruit importers, convened by tho National Federation, resolved urgently to press on tho Government tho need for immediate and adequate protection against intimidation and violence to prevent tho perishing of enormous quantities of fruit and vegetables.—A. and N.Z. Cable. Tho crew of the Hunmui, who wore proceeding to the Victoria and Albert Dock to unload the vessel, met a large crowd of excited strikers, who refused to allow tho sailors to pass tho dock gates. An encounter was imminent, when a body of police arrived, and tho trouble was averted by tho officials of tho Port of London Authority intimating that it would bo useless to attempt to unload tho Hunmui, because the warehouses were mostly full, and were not available for storing goods.—Reuter.

WARNING THE STRIKERS. LONDON, July 17. Tho London and Manchester employers threaten to introduce outside labor unless tho dockers speedily return to work. —A. and N.Z. Cable.