LORD DEVONPORT SPEAKS OUT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 13 July 1912, Page 5

LORD DEVONPORT SPEAKS OUT.

LABOR LEADERS' COERCION

BY CABLE--PEESS ASSOCCATION--COPYBIGHT.

LONDON, July 12. Lord Devonport, chairman of the Port of London Authority, in a statement, says that it is regrettable that distress has been largely caused by the necessity of supplanting strikers who preferred to unjustifiably leave good wages and fair treatment. It had never been alleged by either the leaders or the men that the strike was in any way directed against the . terms and conditions of the Port of London Authority's employment. The Strike was a despotic attempt to coerce the workmen to accept tne terms of the Transport Federation. The labor leaders were trifling with the situation. It would be better. if the Bishops and others would advise a resumption of work, and thus rescue the dupes from the leaders' unjustifiable action.