STRIKE DEADLOCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18642, 25 February 1924, Page 7

STRIKE DEADLOCK.

(X)NF3OREN€JE DECISION. I TESMS SHOULD BE ACCEPTED. f IRRECONCILABLE section. 'FULL' SUM DEMANDED. ■R& • —- . • - ' ifelegrtph— Association— Copyright. ■•' '. (Received 5.5 pjn.) "-'' ■ TUtrtet LONDON. Feb. 23. ' The dockers' conference decided to rc- ' -'cosinefld acceptance of tho terms offered '' bv the employers, and the conference ad- '.; . • J-ned till Monday to enable the dele**\t& to return to their districts to subSfctbe whole position to the men. • While it was hoped the strong reCOm " , ' dations 0 leaders would convince the ority of the dockers of the wisdom of Sling the terms of settlement, the J2t that mass meetings of strikers at S Bristol, Grimsby and Newport reived to continue the strike unless the , Til two shilling* was granted immediacy shows tlie strength of the intransirent » oTCmel, ** , , , ' Tb« r*»lution adopted by delegates !; | 'conference stresses the tremendous ad- ,* TWM » made toward maintenance and * Ik abolition of casunal labour by the apeement . reached. mr ,;— : JfAIL LANDING PREVENTED. VANS TURNED BACK IN ROAD. Wmzo ■ ; S'l GOVERNMENT criticised. > • i. and N.Z. LONDON, Feb. 22. There was much criticism at the! Y: authorities allowing the dockers to pre- ■ vent the landing of eleven hundred bags % of mails brought by the Kaiser-i-Hind. '?■.-' A convoy of 16 vans arriving at the dock- j : I yard at Tilbury found 100 men blocking ; .'. the roadway half a mile from the dock: gates. The strikers told the drivers that "'.'. they had information of the vans' move- j ments since they left the General Post -> Office. The Tilbury police offered pro- j Y , tection if the vans drove on, but it was - impossible for them to proceed without ] killing the pickets. The officer in charge fe of the convoy went to the telephone, and r when he returned the vans had turned round and returned without the mails. ;, It was pointed out that the case might have been different if the mails had ; i reached the dock area, but the vans were atopped on the King's highway. The '"'Morning Post" says there is no : doubt that if the mail vans had been driven to the docks, under police protection, the Kaiser-i-Hind's crew would have " been able to load them. "What are we to say, of a Government that allows this deliberate insult to its authority and pres- ;*' _ age'" - .'„ ' ■ ; ..'