BOOKERS’ MORALS.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS BY MAYOR AN INDIGNANT PROTEST APOLOGY STILL REFUSED United Pren 3 Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright [Australian Press Aasn.) LONDON. Nov. 21. The local trade union secretary had tho greatest difficulty in preventing 1200 dockers in Manchester from ceasing work and marching to the Town Hall ns a protest against the Mayor, Mr Salford, making a statement at a dinner that dockers took up noth lasses, and lived in a single room, producing a population which was a menace to the town, and leaving them a charge on the rates.
The secretary declared that it was a malicious attack on the morals of the dockers’ wives and added: “I feel like handing him over to the women.”
The Mayor privately received a deputation of protesting dockers, hut refused to aplogise. He said he did not mean all dockers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10751, 23 November 1928, Page 2
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