INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27096, 2 June 1949, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

RAILWAY AND DOCK STRIKES IN BRITAIN ATTEMPTS TO WIDEN DISPUTE NZPA—Copyright LONDON, May 31. Industrial tension continues in Britain, where railwaymen are involved in two disputes and the dockers are attempting to widen their strike. The feature common to all disputes is that the men are clearly out of sympathy with their union leaders, who have been striving for a resumption of work and reconciliatton. There are 2600 railway workers involved in “go slow” tactics in London, Manchester, and other depots, in a different dispute from those concerning the week-end strikers, and 4700 dockers are striking at Avonmouth,. Bristol, and Liverpool. Men employed at Britain’s busiest goods depot at Nine Elms, London, and at Manchester, and other places, started a regulation strike. They kept strictly to all rules, and banned overtime and piecework. This strike is a protest at the delay in granting the railwaymen’s claim for an extra 10s a week. Locomotive men at Paddington are meeting on Sunday to decide if they will join the “ Sundays only ” strike. 1 that began in the north-east region ovfer fhe new schedules, which involve drivers and firemen sleeping some nights away from home. Two thousands men in charge of maintenance and Jhe service of signals on London’s underground railways have voted that all labour be withdrawn on June 13 as a token stoppage in support of the wage claim. Efforts to get 3000 Liverpool dockers, who are striking in support of the Canadian seamen’s strike, to resume work, collaosed to-day. Troops unloaded refrigerated m6at and butter from the freighter Trojan Star at Bristol. Others completed the unloading of the cargo of the banana ship Bayano.