MARITIME STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 107, 28 June 1911, Page 5

MARITIME STRIKE.

By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright. United Press Association. (Received 23., 8.5 a.in.) London, June 27. The confusion prevalent in connection with the shipping strike is due to ilia shipowners of each port negotiating witn seamen independently of the other ports. Many owners are urging the Shipping Federation to abandon the policy of non-intervention and formulate a fixed scale of wages, and if this is not accepted by the Federation, the shipowners will lay up their ships. Mr Ben Tillet has issued a manifesto, in which lie states that 40,000 A siatics' are employed by th.c British Mercantile Marine, and that the Shipping Federation was shipping Chinese coolies in greater numbers than the 'Terry Government shipped them to South Africa. Flo declares that the leading Liberal financiers demand this as the price for supporting the Liberal party. Tom Mann states that Go per cent, of the shipping firms of Liverpool have already granted an advance of wages, including the Gulf Line. (Received 28, 9.15 a.m.) London, dune 27. The crews of Peninsular boats at Tilbury have struck. The carters and dockers at Liverpool have joined the strike. The Pacific Line has couce led the seamen’s and firemen’s demands for an increase. The dockers at. Manchester an Tyne have struck, and the fleet colliers on the Tyne have been ran In red idle. The shipping at Sunderland is paralysed. One thousand dockers at Glasgow have struck. The representatives of forty-one coasting and shipowing firms met at Newcastle and rejected the demand for an increase.