DOCKERS OBDURATE.
A STEWARD ARRESTED". EAILWAY MEN'S THREAT TO STRIEE. LONDON, July 3. (Received July ,3, at 9.40 p.m.) The Strike Committee at Liverpool ha) promised that if the recalcitrant dockers wiil resume work wherever tho uiiion is recognised they will enppoit them in an effort to obtain union rates, unless these are conceded before the end of the month. The recalcitrant dockers, however, are unwilling to agree to the proposal. The steward of the Canada has been arrested in connection with, the fires on the vesnel. Owing to the strike the Carmania and tho Empress of Britain, on board of which are Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Canadian contingent, aro unable to sail The liner St. Louis picked up her mails at Queenstown. Flour at Hull has lately been selling at Is 6d, not 2s 2d, per stone. The supply of butter is almost exhausted, and' sugar has risen £d per lb. The railway men resolved to strike if asked to deal with the transit of goods handled by blacklegs. At a sectional meeting of the strikers at Hull it was resolved to resume work if the'employers, besides the recent offer, augmented all the dockers' wages and niet representatives of all (.ections to discuss the question of the settlement of the men's grievances. Mr G.~R- Askwith has been inyited to reopen the conference.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15186, 4 July 1911, Page 5
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