PORT OF LONDON TRADE PARALYSED.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13824, 22 September 1913, Page 5

PORT OF LONDON TRADE PARALYSED.

FIVE THOUSAND MEN IDLESITUATION AT~BIRMINGHAM. London, Sept 19. ~ 3 Trade at the' Port of London is paralysed. Five thousand men. are idle. } and efforts at a conference have prov- . Ed abortive. > The Birmingham men are increasi ingly indignant, and allege that the local leaders deliberately concealed 1 from the executive the union's repudi--2 ation of the strike. Some 280 men i have resumed work. - Two hundred Midland railway men r at Derby have struck in sympathy . with Liverpool and Birmingham. t Three railway men at Crewe were . suspended for refusing to handle Dub--3 lin goods. Five hundred men struck ) in sympathy, causing a complete stop--1 page. . . Some 150 railway men at the Brunswick Docks, Liverpool, have struck. The Birmingham strike committee - condemns the National Union's weak--1 ness and procrastination. The strike . continues until a policy regarding j "blackleg" traffic is defined. At tho request of the Chamber of L .Commerce the Birmingham authorities offered police protection to traders wishing to bring goods from the railway depots.