THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9554, 4 July 1911, Page 5

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

FOOD RISING.

RAILWAYMEN THREATEN.

TROUBLE.

(By ELEOTJIIC :TELEGRAPH-C'ol , 7ni6HT.) If EB PBEBB, AMKHUATION.I .. ■•' LONDON, .Tuly 3. ■ Tho strike- committee at Liverpool has promised that if tho. recalcitrant will rosiimo work, wherever their union is recognised, they will support .them to obtain the union'rate, unless these are conocdod before tho end of tho nonth.

-The rocidcitrants,'-howfevor, ■ trc unwilling to obey. t A steward of tho Canada has been arrested in connection with the tires. Owing to the strike- the Carm.uiia and the Empress of Britain, aboard which aro Sir Wilfrid Lauricr and-tho Canadian contingent,-arc-unable to sail. Tlio liner St. Louis picked up tho mails at--Queens-town. Flour at-Hull, lately Is 6d, is now 2s 2d per stone. Butter is almost sxhaustcd, and sugar has risen a farthing a poundTho railway men have retolvod to strike if asked to deal with the transit nf good') handled by blacklegs, A sectional meeting of strikers at Hull resolved to resume if tho employers, besides the recent offer, augmented _ all dockers' wages and met representatives of all sections to discuss settlement, of grievances. ~ , The second battalion of tho South' Staffordshire regiment at Lichfield lias been ordered to bo in readiness to proceed to Liverpool or Hull.

TROUBLE IN LIVERPOOL ENDED,

Received July 4, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, July 3. Tho Liverpool .strike has ended,, and the Carmania and Empress 01 Britain ha-vo sailed. • ' •