CLAIMS BY DOCKERS
BRITISH PROPOSALS THAMES TUGMEN STRIKE LONDON. Dec. 8. Recommendations by Sir John Forster. who was appointed by the Government as an investigator, propose that dockers and employers should have an equal voice in deciding manpower for Britain’s major ports, says a report published in a White Paper. . The principal proposals are, frst, that a central authority with employers and employees equally represented and three indeoendent members should decide the number of registered dockers; secondly, men must be prepared to go to distant ports lor rush jobs; and thirdly, a guaranteed weekly wage for dockers reporting for work whether a shio is in port or not. A lightning strike of Gravesend tugmen threatens to dislocate Thames shipping says Reuter’s. Thirty tugs, several of which are sea-going vessels, are idle and over 200 men are on strike. The dispute is over travelling time and expenses.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22200, 10 December 1946, Page 2
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