THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 28 June 1911, Page 5

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

CONFUSION AMONG SHIPOWNERS LABOUR LEADERS ACTIVE. CHARGES AGAINST LIBERAL FINANCIERS. Prbss Association.—Copyright. (Received June 28. 8.5 a.m.) LOND ON, Tuesday. Confusion is prevalent in connection with the shipping strike due to shipowners at each 'port negotiating with seamen independently of other ports. Many owners are urging the Shipping Federation to -abandon the policy of noin-intervention and to formulate a fixed scale of wages, if not accepted the Federation of Shipowners to lay up their ships. Mr. Ben Tillet, Labour leader, has issued a manifesto. He states that 40,000 Asiatics are employed in the British mercantile marine, and that the Shipping Federation is shipping Chinese coolies in greater numibers than the Tory Government shipped them to South Africa. The manifesto declares that leading Liberal financiers demand this as the price of supporting the Liberal party. Mr. Tom Mann, labour leader, states that 65 per cent, of the ■shipping funns in Liverpool already have granted an advance in. wages, inclu-ding the GuM line.

FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. THE STRIKE SPREADING. OTHER WORKERS IN SYMPATHY. (Received June 28, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. Tihe crews of three Penlinsuiliar and Oriental boats' at Tilbury ha.ve strucik.. The carters and dockers at Liverpool have joined the strikers. The Pacific line has concedfe'd the seamen's and firemen's demands for am increase of wages.

Dockers at' Manchester and «b the Tyn-e have struck and the fleet of col-Idei-s on the Tyne has> been rendered idle.

Shipping at Sunderland is iparadysed. A thousand dockers at Glasgow have struck.

Representatives of 41 coasting shlipowning firms met at Newcastle and rejected the demand for increased wages.