THE DOCK STRIKE.
A writer in Truth aays : —Whit has been pisßing between the shipowners and the Dock Committee more than justifies the opinion upon the strike which I hazarded la3t week. At Monday's meeting tbe shipowners said, in effect, to the Dock Directors, "Kindly stand aside. Let us make our own arrangemenls for discharging our ships, and the present dead-lock will be terminated in half an hour." The Dock Companies naturally object to stand aside. They are prompted to this by the eternal law of political economy or human nature (whichever you please to call it), by virtue of which everybody always tries to make the beat bargain he can for himself. But by an equally eternal law, if one man has an article to sell for sixpence, and another is willing to buy It for sixpence, it rests entirely with them whether an intermediary shall be allowed to buy the aiticle off one for fivepence and Bell it to the other for eightpence. The more I see of it the more I am convinced that this ia the whole philosophy of the " dockers' tanner."
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4539, 30 November 1889, Page 3
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186THE DOCK STRIKE. Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4539, 30 November 1889, Page 3
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