LONDON DOCK STRIKE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11658, 13 June 1912, Page 4

LONDON DOCK STRIKE.

SPREADING TO OTHER PORTS. [By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright.]. (Per Press Association.) Received Juno 13, at 8.55 a.m. London, Juno 12. Messrs Gosling and Tillett, appeal to the trade unionists for funds. They declare that all the spare funds are depleted. ■ :■„ Legget. secretary of the London. Carmen's Union, has "been arrested for interfering with a non-unionist driver. The- British Seafarer's Union has joined forces with the strikers. There are 1000 strikers at Southampton, 6000 at Swansea, 8000, at Bristol, 10,000 at Manchester. - • •.'•■ '•..-, , The. Teeside dockers have decided not to strike. The leaders of the Leith dockers, seamen, and firemen condemned a national strike. - • • x ■ Tho Chronicle does not anticipate a national strike owing to the apathetic, response. .

Received June 13, at 10.35 a.m. ' London. June 12. The Medic will la rid her passengers at Plymouth owing to the strike. Received June: 13, at 9.15; a.m. London, Juno 12.' At a meeting of the Westha.ni Council the Mavor refused Mi- Will Thorne, Labor M.P., leave to move the iollow'ing resolution:—"As- the employers have- refused a settlement the council instruct that the roads communicating with the docks, bo pulled up." Received June 3, at 10.5 a.m. London, Juno 12. Mr Austen Chamberlain moved a resolution declaring Mr M'Kenna's action in withholding protection for strikebreakers unconstitutional, and that the Government's constant interferences arc fomenting unrest. Leggatt, secretary of the- London Carmen's Union, was fined' 40s or one month, for interfering with nonunionists. He chose imprisonment.-