TRANSPORT WORKERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 143, 9 August 1911, Page 6

TRANSPORT WORKERS.

(Received 9, 8.15 a.m.) London, August 8

Animated by Mr Havelock Wilson’s success in tlio Seamen’s and Firemen’s dispute, .Mr Gosling, secretary to tlio ’Ji.uispoi t workers, has seized the opportunity to become Lie dictator of tlio transport world Tho coni porters want a revision r u their tariff ; the lightermen want the abolition of the distinction between daily and weekly men’s pay, while the stevedores have not yet formulated their demands. Mr Askwitli, secretary to the Board nl Trade, is interviewing the varioussections in the hope of discovering a basis of settlement.

Great supplies of frozen meat are held up, and prices at Smithuel 1 are rising. One hundred reels oi paper cannot ho handled. Five thousand carters have struck. A London cable message states that the Prince of Wales has joined the battleship Hindustan. For chronic chest complaints, Woods' Groat Popper:j 'tt C’vro. [3 Gd, 2s Gd.* Every home should keep a supply of the "popular Roslyn Wriling Pads. Obtainable from local drapers and storekeepers, at Gd and Is inch.* Owing to increasing business, Mr. A. J. Davey lias found it ncecssary to add to his plant of vehicles, and lie lias purchased an up to-date rubber-! y red cab, which wifi be available for clients , at all hours.* For that present you intend giving your friend, go to H. J. Hopkins'.*