AT LONDON DOCKS.
WORK PROCEEDING. STRIKE COMMITTEE CANNOT ENFORCE DECISION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, July 29. Active work is proceeding at the docks, which are continually increasing their staff, but tho lightermen are causing the real difficulty. Many strikers are returning to find their places filled. Only 500 secured employment at the Tilbury and Surrey Docks to-day. Several newspapers comment on the inability of the leaders to control the strikers, and suggest that the men’s determination to continue tho strike is due to tho fact that they have no work to return to. Eight thousand stevedores have decided to resume work.
The strike committee met to-day. Recriminations wero freely exchanged. Mr Orbell, secretary of tho Dockers’ Union, states: “Wo dare not adhere to Saturday’s decision. The men would have our blood if we advised them to surrender.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8187, 31 July 1912, Page 7
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