MARINE STRIKE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14481, 30 June 1911, Page 5

MARINE STRIKE.

STILL sPItIiADING. DAMACIIi IiKSULTING. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyriglit. LOXDUN, June iiß. Four thousand National Union Dock labourers at Liverx>ool struck to secure the recognition of their union, and ea a protest against the employment of nonunionists. All the crews in port thereupon abandoned their vessels An aggregate of nine thousand dockers and seafarers are idle, and shipping is completely paralysed. Three thousand dockers- and 1000 seamen at • Manchester and 700 men handling timber at Hartlepool have struck. lliere is a- grea<t -accumulation, of fish, butter, and eggs at Hull and the flourmillers are short of grain. The Board of Trade will intervene. MORE OWNERS GIVE WAY. The Allen, Nelson, and Pacific shipping linos at Liverpool have conoeded all the strikers' demands, including those of the dockers. A conference of shipowners in. London favoured an increase of wages, but declined to recognise the Seamen's Union.

OWNERS WILL NOT RECOGNISE UNIONS. Deceived 9.40 p.m., June 29tli. LONDON, June 29. A conference of a hundred" sliipowiv ors of the United Kingdom decided' that a moderate increase of wages might bo given at certain ports in view of present trade condition's, and recommended t.ic Shipowners' Association to fix a standard of waijies for tlie respective districts, and advised the Shipping Federation to extend ite functions' to cover wages, disputes. /" _ It was unanimously decided to oppose recognition, of ■ the Sailors', and Eiremen's Unions. 1 The National Transport Workers Federation Conference resolved to adopt drastic action against the shipping firms, unless the strike terminates on Saturday. HULL'S SERIOUS PREDICA'ment. SHORT OF AVHEAT. Received 12.10 a.m., June 30th. y LONDON," June 29. The districts around Hull are suffering from scarcity of supplies -and rising prices; 200,000 quarters of grain cannot be unloaded, .and most of the grain warehouses in the North of England are empty. Work has been stopped at several collieries. The situation, in Hull-, is threatening. The whole of the working population is involved. Detachments of Sheffield and Birmingham police, have been drafted there, '*

The police charged with the truncheons a sectior of a mob of ten thonsand perambulating the city calling on the mill hands to cease irork and help to paralyse tho trade of the port. A number of creosote works and timber mills have been forced to stop, and oil mills are on the verge of stoppage.