END OF STRIKE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 1 May 1947, Page 5

END OF STRIKE

LONDON JDOCKERS MEN ACCEPT TERMS GLASGOW TO VOTE LATER (11 a.m.) LONDON. April 30. The London dock strikers agreed to recommend acceptance of the proposals made by the Minister of Labour, Mr. G. Isaacs. These are:— (1) The men resume work immediately. (2) The dismissed men who were working on the docks before 1939 be reinstated. (3) The remainder of the 500 men over whom the dockers struck bebecause of their dismissal on the ground of redundancy would be employed until the national joint council had considered the Glasgow port’s labour position. The Glasgow dockers will vote later on Mr. Isaacs’ proposals and communicate the result to the London dockers. One thousand members of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, employed at the West India dock, have already unanimously voted to return to work to-morrow’. The rank-and-file committee of the Glasgow dockers did not accept the advice of the executive of the Scottish Transport and General Workers’ Union to return to work pending the inquiry promised by Mr Isaacs into redundancy. The Glasgow strikers will meet tomorrow to consider their committee’s recommendation to continue the strike. The union, meanwhile, has asked the London strikers to await Glasgow’s decision.