THE STRIKES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 3, 19 August 1911, Page 4

THE STRIKES.

One of the most remarkable features of the first of the present strikes in Britain, and the one which lias contributed most of all to the difficulties of discussion and settlement, has beep its contagious character, a writer on the spot says. Started in a comparatively small way amongst unionist seamen and firemen on the great. Atlantic liners at Liverpool and Southampton, it has spread like an epidemic, involving in turn stewards, crevs. of all classes of ships, riggers, dry-dock % workers, dock labourers, carters, and railway servants, and even packing-case makers. A settlement of the grievances of one class of workers has become contingent ujinn the satisfaction of claims put forward or about to bo put. forward by other classes. The dockers and

:?anic;i want more money because they think that in the present boom of foreign trade and tiaffic these .‘ho control their means of livelihood are making more than a reasonable share in the profits of thd world’s exchange of goods.