MARITIME STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 111, 1 July 1911, Page 5

MARITIME STRIKE.

FREE FIGHTS. MANY INJURED. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Press Association. London, June 30. Mr. Asquith presided at a conference of fifty Hull shipowners and men’s delegates, who included seamen, firemen, dockers, lightermen, and coal porters. The terms were agreed upon for a ,Saturday half-holi-day for aockers and a day weekly for sailors and firemen. The masters agreed not to compel a man to hare a Federation ticket. Weekly wages were fixed at 32s 6d, being an advance of 2s (id. The monthly wage was fixed at 90s for jailors, and 9os for firemen. ■ . ’ The men’s leaders submitted' a pro'posed settlement. n A, crowd numbering 12,000 assembled outside the Station Hotel. Mr. Askwith, in a speech to the crowd, stated that the men’s representatives endorsed the agreement, also a large committee of workers who had been cbnsulted. The crowd, however, greeted the proposal to accept the terms with snouts of “No! No. We, Will starve first!” The dockers, who wore in the majority, were particularly insistent against the agreement, it was directly apparent that tne agreement would, be rejected. Two thousand strikers went to Albert Dock to view the boarding of the steamer Calypso to bring ashore supposed non-unionists. An attack is not AAlUtho available police are engaged in guarding the Station Hotel. .Four North-Eastern Railway policemen were roughly handled while endevouring to explain to the strikers that, they were under a misapprehension regarding those working on the Calypso. Op© hundred and ten policemen, marching at the “double,” came to the . rescue, using their batons freely. , They drove the strikers to the bridge, when they threw stones, bricks, and broken bottles. The police charged up the stops. After the charge, seventeen police and stnk©ys wero .'taken the hospitals. Many:others were'injured. The strikers also wrecked tne exterior of the Shipping Federation’s Free Labour Bureau, and Wilson s shipping offices. They are now parading the town, wrecking lamp-posts and tearing up flag-stones. . Eoarlicr in the day 4000 women (pianv carrying .babies) assembled at the offices of the Independent Labour Party, whore the distribution of grocery tickets was made. A free fight ensued. Upon the discovery that some of the women were wives of men ip full work, the police intervened, kpd the distribution of groceries war, shopped.

SERIOUS OUTLOOK. (Received 1, 8.5 a.m.) London, Juno 30. Fifteen thousand hands have been rendered idle by the Hull strike. Two squadrons of Scotch Guards at York are ready to proceed to Hull. The dockers at Liverpool ignored their leaders’ appeal to accept a settlement, and have started a fresh f. (Received 1, 9.30 a.m.) London, June 80. The Shipping Federation is arranging to temporarily lay up half tho shipping tonnage of the Kingdom. ; The joint strike committee at Liverpool has issued a list of twenty-foui firifis who' hate 1 agreed’-to a satisfactory settlement, but 2000 dockers still revolt against the mere recognition of the union, and insist on a guarantee Of 'union wages. ] (Received 1, 9.40 a.m.) Antwerp, June 30. ~ the Shippers’ Union has agreed to pay thet wages current at Hamburg and other competing Continental 1 The Hague, June 30. The dockers at are molesting non-union men, their wives, and children, breaking ship chandlers’ windows, and maltreating their employees. .Twenty Chinese stokers have arrived to sign on. (Received 1, 10.10 a.m.) London, June 30. The unionist dockers on the Thames have struck for a uniform wage. The non-union dockers at the Surrey and Commercial Docks have struck. Five hundred London metropolitan police have been sent to Hull, where rioting continued till 2 o’clock in the morning. Several constables and a score of civilians were injured. The mounted police, charging, dispersed the mobs. The police at Manchester are being reinforced in the vicinity of tho docks. Three thousand new members of tho Dockers’ Union have been enrolled at Liverpool. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway men at the North Docks decline to handle goods landed by blackleg labour.

The Suevic’s apples have not been discharged, and it is probable that the Papanui, also 2 will not he discharged. There were outbreaks of fire in four places on the Arabic. Jncediarism is suspected.