A “RED” PRAYER

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8183, 26 July 1912, Page 7

A “RED” PRAYER

BY LONDON STRIKERS FOR THE DEATH OF LORD DEVONPORT. RIOTS AT THE DOCKS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, July 24. Mr Ben Tillett, at' a meeting on Tower Hill, called on the strikers to join in his prayer, “ God strike Devonport dead I” f lhe majority of the strikers repeated the words, and to Ilowed this by singing, “ He shall die.” Fifty strikers rushed the London docks before the gates could be closed, attacked the wharves, and fired a waggouload of fibre. The police outside charged a mob of two thousand who were attempting to enter with the object of assaulting nonunionists. Twenty-five rioters had to be treated in the hospital for wounds received during the conflict with the police. STIRRING HP PROVINCIAL TRANSPORTERS.

LONDON, July 24. Mr J. Havelock Wilson secretary of the International Seamen’s Federation, is endeavouring to procure a general strike of transport workers in the provinces.

SERIOUS EXCESSES LABOR M.P. INDULGES IN FIERY LANGUAGE. STRIKERS PLUNDER AND BURN. (Received July 25, 10.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 25. Mr James O’Grady, Labor M.P. for East Leeds, also spoae at Tower Hill. Lie described Lord Devonport as the worst type of criminal he had ever come in contact with.

Lord Devouport’s house is guarded,

The strike committee is considering a national stoppage and the extension of the strike to Hull dockers. A ballot will bo taken on the question of a national stoppage. After the Tower Hill meeting 2000 dockers the orators and marched to the docks in two sections. One upset and plundered two breadvans and commandeered a van loaded with foodstulfs. The second section set two carts on fire—one loaded with cocoanut fibre and the other with wool.

There was a severe tight when they attempted to enter the Katherine dock wool warehouses, but eventually the police were reinforced and commanded the situation.