TRANSPORT WORKERS' STRIKE.
ACTIVITY AT THE DOCKS
STRIKERS FIND THEY ABM
DISPLACED
BY CABLE—PUESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received July 30, 11 a.m.") LONDON, Tuly 2P. Work is active, and the docks :.«)e c( ntinually increasing their staffs, '-lit the lightermen are the real difficulty. Many strikers wishing to return to work find that their places l>;ive been filled, and only, 500 have ecu red employment at Tilbury and Surrey docks. To-day several newspapers Cf-r.mient the leaders' inability to control the -itrikers, and suggest that the determination to continue the strike is •due to the fact that they have no woi k to resume. Eight thousand stevedores have decided to resume work. Tlie Strike Committee -net ■'o-dny. and recriminations were fre^lv exr fu'ii"ed. Mr Orbell stated: "We via re not adhere to Saturday's decision, ''he men will have our blood if we nJv:se them to surrender."
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIII, Issue XVIII, 30 July 1912, Page 7
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143TRANSPORT WORKERS' STRIKE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIII, Issue XVIII, 30 July 1912, Page 7
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