LONDON DOCK STRIKE
SOLID VOTE TO STAY OUT REPUDIATION OF UNION LEADERS (Rec. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. The London and Merseyside dockers decided at mass meetings to-day to continue on strike until their demands are accepted. At the London meeting only 24 of several thousand voted against continuance of the strike. The dock strikers have been warned that the Transport Workers' Union in to-morrow's discussions with the employers on higher wage rates would negotiate only for those .men who had not repudiated! the union warning given by the national secretary of the docks section of the union, Mr Donovan, who announced that the union was discussing with the employers increasing the basis of the daily rate from 16s to 255. Mr Donovan said that if some dockers still repudiated the union leaders they must accept the position that they were not parties to the discussion. He the employers would take .the sama attitude.
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Evening Star, Issue 25617, 18 October 1945, Page 5
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154LONDON DOCK STRIKE Evening Star, Issue 25617, 18 October 1945, Page 5
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