OPEN DEFIANCE
COVENT GARDEN STRIKERS.
COUNTRY-WIDE BOYCOTT.
INFLAMMATORY INSTIGATION.
(Received 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, August 26,
The transport workers' leader, Mr Bevin, has instructed the dockers throughout the country to inform the employers of the workers' refusal to handle any fruit or vegetables until the Covent Garden strike is settled. Mr Bevin asks the branches to report the result by Thursday next in order to arrange for concerted operation of the boycott.
The strike pickets were withdrawn from Covent Garden to-day, but only i few porters resumed.
Ben Tillet, addressing the strikers, said there were "half a million men behind them. The real fight would begin after the first of the month. He appealed to the employers to be sportsmen. The strikers did not want to use force, but he warned the employers against utilising the police and said that if force were employed against the strikers their leaders would act accordingly. He ridiculed the idea of marketing produce by aeroplane. —Router.
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Northern Advocate, 27 August 1924, Page 5
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