THE POSTMEN'S STRIKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8306, 12 July 1890, Page 5

THE POSTMEN'S STRIKE.

EXPECTED END OF THE DISPUTE. Press Aisoeiation.—Electric Telenraph.—Copyright. Loxdox, July 10. Mail deliveries are delayed owing to the trouble in several district offices. Hundreds of postmen at Leicester Square have been dismissed. [n accordance with the resolution passed at a meeting of Unionists 1000 postmen of the eastern and northern districts have struck, and processions comprising 300 postmen will march to West End with the view of saining adherents. A hundred postmen belonging to the Parcels Department at Mount Pleasant wore dismissed for attacking blacklegs. A meeting of two thousand postmen at Clerkenwell resolved to strike before the tiret delivery to-day unless the blacklegs were withdrawn. The department is willing to do .so if the men will promise not to strike, but they decline. Sir Arthur Blackweod, Secretary to the Post-office, personally discharged the riotous hands at Mount Pleasant, and afterwards proceeded to the central oflice, where the blacklegs were working alongside the regular postmen, guarded by policemen. Owing to his influence with the men they succumbed, and delivered the mails. At a meeting of a thousand sorters a resolution was passed condemning any concession on the part of the Union unless contingent demands were conceded as well as the main points in dispute.