THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
o r RIOTING RENEWED AT CARDIFF. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Presit Association. London, July 19. Five thousand dockers at Cavdifl have struck in support of the seamen’s demand for recognition of the union. The rioting has been renewed. Many London police were unhorsed, and;'several horses were, stabbed. The military at Newport are Jibing heldt.in readiness. Mr Havelock Wilson, of Cardiff, deplored the riots and urged the men to h'ehave. He contended- t that the only- way to bring the Shipping Federation to its senses was the absolute stoppage of work in the Bristol Channel and on the North-East coast. He added,that unless the conference was summoned this week, fifty thousand men in Loudon would strike on Monday.
Transport workers and dockers at Newport struck in sympathy with the Cardiff coal trimmers, declining to work aboard vessels where the seamen were paid below the recognised rate of wages.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 127, 21 July 1911, Page 6
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150THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 127, 21 July 1911, Page 6
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