THE DOCK STRIKE
LATEST CABLES
NEARING THE END
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LONDON, June 18. ,
The foreman of the Lightermen’s Society manned a dozen tugs and brought a number of barges to Tilbury, Surrey and Commercial Docks.
Police guarded the barges. The l sailors’ and firemen s ballot is against the strike. Mr Asquith wrote -to Lord Devynport endeavouring to. arrange i terms for the transport workers to resume. Lord Devonport replied, declining to promise to meet the representatives of the men. He said that if they resumed he was willing to discuss any suggestions made by the Government. i. SHIPPING HELD UP. Reeceived this day at 10.30 a.in. . LONDON, June 18.
The Strike Commitee states that mar chinery will be. put in operation .blocking all vessels diverted from Continental to Home ports. Several Atlantic liners are delayed at Southampton where "two hundred extra police have arrived with outside labour which has also been imported. Owing to the strike the departure of the Wairnana,Rangitira and Norseman hav© postponed indefinitely. They carry 2,600 ini migrants, for. New South Wales and .500 for Victoria.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1912, Page 5
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