CONVENT GARDEN STRIKE

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 316, 21 August 1924, Page 8

CONVENT GARDEN STRIKE

TOWN EDITION,

BVIR OFFICE, 8 p.m

EXTENSION OF TROUBLE

FT! LIT FLEET HELD UP

r By Electric Cable—Copyright. 4ust. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Renter) (Received Aug. 2, 1 p.m.) London, Aug. 20. At the Convent Garden employers refusal to vi.sit the Minister of Labour to m?ct the ■department's conciliation officials, because the men had struck without warning, the Transport "Workers' Union derided to stop the cross-Channel service for fruit and vegetables at midnight to-night. The wholesalers of Covent Gardens have mad'.? special motor vehicle and train arrangements by means of which growers could send their produce. He ridiculed the threat to hold up the cross-Channel supplies, as these were very small at present. Furthermore, the English farmers were deal in</ with London retailers direct.