RIOTOUS DOCKERS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8189, 2 August 1912, Page 1

RIOTOUS DOCKERS.

SERIOUS CONFLICTS. NON-UNIONISTS USE REVOLVERS IX DEFENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, July 31. Strikers who had been re-engaged at the Victoria Dock attacked 200 U nonunionists. Bricks, stones, bludgeons, and knives were freely used. Several non-unionists produced revolvers, and at least sixty shots were lired.

A number of men were wounded anC twenty were removed to hospitals.

During tho rioting the strikers attempted to raid several steamers. A number of persons received wounds from bullets. The baton charges ot the police eventually cleared the quays. Similar outbreaks occurred at the Royal Albert and West India docks. Apparently the attacks were organised to clear' out the free laborers, particularly those in permanent employment. Mounted police charged tho mob, and many arrests were made.

Five thousand lightermen, on tho advice of Mr Harry Gosling, president of the Transport Workers’ Federation, have decided to resume work. FUNDS FROM MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, August 1. The Waterside Workers’ Federation voted £IOO for the London dockers. CAUSES OF THE TROUBLE WORKERS, EMPLOYEES, AND GOVERNMENT ALL BLAMED. PEESS ASSOCIATION. ~ , AUCKLAND August 1. Mr Matthew Clark, a ■ leading business man. who has returned from London, said that-he thought emploj-ces. employers, and tho British Government officials were all blameworthy i.n connection with tho labor upheavals. The workers were inclined to rush into strikes without Justifiable causes, the employers stubborn, in giving way. the Government lax in enforcing law and order. ,In the latter respect a charge of supineness was being laid at tho door of tho present Government bv large numbers of people in England. The preservation Of industrial peace would depend on tho strength of the Government in . power. They must be, after all, the final arbiters.