DOCK WORKERS STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 December 1925, Page 9

DOCK WORKERS STRIKE

MEAT SHIPS AFFECTED.

TROUBLE OVER TRUCKS.

PROSPECTS OF SETTLEMENT,

tiY CABLE —PiIESS ASSOCIATION— OOPYB.IGHI Received Dec. 8,2 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 7. The strike has extended to Tilbury, owing to the diversion thither ol the Maloja, which was originally intended to be discharged at King George Dock, where the trouble originated in connection with the Largs Bay. V ork began on the Maloja yesterday by the Peninsular Company’s, own labourers, who are not connected with the stevedore contractors, whose employees are striking at King George Dock. Today the Maloja’s workers declined to continue to discharge her, and refused to work other steamers, including the Ayrshire, which had just arrived with large refrigerated cargo. -Strikers and employers conferred this afternoon, and though the result is not announced, it is believed there is a prospect of work being resumed tomorrow’. It is understood the trouble on the Largs Bay arose from the use of electric bogey trucks to convoy meat a'oncr the quayside to the barges, thereby enabling tne employers to reduce the men »employed by 50 per cent., but the electrictrucks wer e not employed at Tilbury. —A, and N.Z. Assn.