BREAD RATIONING
POSSIBLE IN BRITAIN DELAY TO GRAIN SHIPS EFFECT OF DOCK STRIKE LONDON, Oct. 28 Bread will have to be rationed in Britain this winter unless grain ships can be turned round quickly enough to get to Canada and away again before the St. Lawrence River freezes, said the Minister of Education, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, in a speech in reference to the dockers' strike. Trade unions were necessary, even in a Socialist State, .Miss Wilkinson added, but this strike, if it went on much longer, would scrap the union machine and make it impossible even to begin to build a Socialist, State. The dock employers stood to lose little from the strike, because they were acting as agents of the Government. The whole weight of suffering would fall on the ordinary men and women of Britain, and particularly on children, who ware now facing a most difficult winter.
About 2500 dock workers on strike at Bristol and Avonmouth, in the west of England, have gone back to work. Dockers at Grimsby and Immingham, in Lincolnshire, have also resumed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25346, 30 October 1945, Page 5
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