LABOUR TROUBLES

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9880, 11 April 1893, Page 2

LABOUR TROUBLES

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright,

(PHES3 ASSOCIATION.) LesDON, April 9. The Unionists at Grimsby have under* taken to boycott veaaOs from Hull. Tha Seamen’s Union intend to fight the Shipping Federation at every possible point.

Hull is quiet. The shipping trade at Hull is entirely suspended. All the dockers, seamen and firemen bave struck.

The Unionists attacked the hands engaged in unloading the steamers, but were repulsed by the police at the point of tho bayonet. Mr 0. H. Wilson, the member for Middlesborough, is trying to indaoo the Homo Secretary to disarm the Unionists. [Mr C. H. Wilson has represented the western division of Hull since 1871 ] The naval authorities have been at Iced to send gunboats to Hull to protect the shipping interests.

Mr Wilson, the shipowner, has declined to dismiss the nun Unionists, saying he would prefer to remove his vessels from tho po t. Mr J H. Wilson, member for Middlesborough, addressing a meeting in oonneotion with the Hull strike, seid it was a glorious ohanco to set tho seamen, dockers and miners aflame.

[Mr J. H. Wilson was elected last year to represent MMUleabarough. He started tho National Amalgamated Sailors' and Firemen’s Union in 1887.] (Received April 11, 1.15 a.m.) London, April 10.

Two gunboats havo arrived at Hall to protect the docks and other property in cafee of an attack.