LONDON DOCKS DISPUTE.

Northern Advocate, 5 June 1912, Page 5

LONDON DOCKS DISPUTE.

A FUTILE CONFERENCE

FROZEN CARGOES UNLOADED

LIGHTERMEN DEADLOCK.

(Received June 5, 8.47 a.m.)

LONDON, June 4

The Port of London employers attended the Home Office, but the visit was without any satisfactory result. It is reported that Mr Lloyd-George was irritated with the employers for criticising in their reply the Government's proposed federation of employers. His expressions were afterwards Withdrawn. . Six thousand, are working at the docks. The New Zealand Shipping Company has engaged all the men it can find work for, including many strikers. Thirty thousand carcases have been unloaded from the Waimana, Rangitira, -and Turakina and placed iri cold storage at the docks. • The absence of lightermen remains a difficulty, since they cannot be replaced owing to royal charters. In connection with the refusal of the Port of London authority to allow the steamer Lady Jocelyn, with free laborers aboard, to enter the Albert Dock, the Shipping Federation is considering making an application for a mandamus to compel the authority to admit the Lady Jocelyn. Twenty-six thousand dockers and 800 stevedores will receive 10s strike pay on Wednesday. Owing to the strike the London millers have advanced the price of flour 2s, making it 35s a sack. Sir William Nelson, chairman of the Nelson Steamship Company, interviewed, strongly criticised the proposed Conciliation Board, and said that he would transfer his steamers to another port if such an outside authority were arranged.

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