THREAT BY DOCKERS AND RAILWAYMEN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 May 1921, Page 5

THREAT BY DOCKERS AND RAILWAYMEN.

LONDON, May 9

According to the Daily Chronicle a grave development in the coal crisis is •due to the threat by dockers and raildaymen to refuse to handle any seaborne coal. These supplies «are not necessarily from foreign sources. As a matter of fact the trouble commenced yesterday with a. Welsh cargo in Glasgow harbour. It remains to be seen ■whether the transport workers' executive, when it meets to-day, will endorse the sectional action of those workers.

The raiiwaymen have been informed that their refusal is contrary to instructions from their own executive, but the dockers and railwaymen assert that they cannot discriminate between commercial coal aad coal for public utility services. ** It is suggested that j the extremists have been encouraged j "by the outbreak among the reservists at> Aldershot. LONDON, May 10. While the stewards' strike is holding up ships at Hull, Southampton, Swansea and Glasgow, others signed on at reduced rates at Newport, Bristol, Middlesiboro, Manchester and Liverpool.