SUPPORT FROM TRANSPORT WORKERS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13412, 9 May 1912, Page 5

SUPPORT FROM TRANSPORT WORKERS.

ORIENT LINE COMPLIES WITH

REQUEST,

(Received May 9, 0.30 a.m.)

LoncJon, May 8

Tlio Disti'kt Transport Workers' Federation, representing 100,000 men, has resolved to support the strikers, ;r.:d to send a deputation to the P, and 0. Company to-day*

The Orient 'Company have already agreed t*> carry two efficient white seamen fw each lifeboat.

The "Morning Post" states that ten seamen are insufficient. If the P. and 0 Company is unwilling to raise; the complement it ought to bo forced to do so by law.