MARITIME STRIKE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14482, 1 July 1911, Page 5

MARITIME STRIKE.

SOME OWNERS GIVE WAY, THE STRIKE EXTENDING. Pre*s Association—By Tol.—Copyright. LONDON, Juno 29. The Gunard and Canadian Paeifio Companies have recognised all tho Unions, including the dockers. The Central Railway Company has arranged terms with its ow nsailors and firemen. Five hundred stewards on tho combine lines at Liverpool struck. Tho Whito Star linor Zealand was unable to moor at tho landing stage, and tho passengers were landed by teudor, Some eretvs-at Dublin and the orew on tho Mersey lightehip have struck. Fifty vessels, including several Atlantic linora, are idle at Manchester. The dockers at Grimsby have struck and demand an increase; also an hour's less work per day. THE SITUATION AT HULL. Tho flourmill hands at Hull have demanded an increase in wages. A mob, hearing that the firemen at the mills refused, to strike attacked Sir Joseph Rank's flour mills. They rushed the buildings but tbe'police ejected them. The mob then stoned tho police and broke tho windows. Wornon and children were trampled upon when the police charged, a dozen being injured'. Tho men finally turned the hose on the mob.

The news that Mr J. R. Askwith, Controller-General of the Labour Department, was coming to Hull to confer with the employers and the strike leaders, had] the effect of stopping the riot. Mr Askwith attended a conference of shipowners' and men's representatives. There are now 1000 extra police in Hull. ABORTIVE INTERVENTION, PROPOSED AGREEMENT REJECTED. Received 10.55 p.m., June SOtli. LONDON, June 30. Mr Aikwith presided at a conference of fifty Hull shipowners and men's delegates, the latter including seamen, firemen, dockers, lightermen and coal porters. Terms were agreed upon for a Saturday half-holiday for dockers and half a day weekly for sailors and firemen. Masters are not to compel & man to have a federation ticket. Weekly wages were fixed at 32s 6d, this being an advance of 2s 6d; the monthly wage was fixed at 90s for firemen. The men's leaders submitted the proposed settlement to a crowd of twelve thousand assembled outside the Sta.ti.xi Hotel. Mr Askwith, in a speech to the crowd, stated that the men's representatives had approved of the agreement, and also a large committee of workers, who had been consulted. The crowd however greeted the proposal to accept it with shouts of "No, no. We will starve first. Go back to the employers." The dockers, who were in the majority, were particularly insistent against the agree-' nient. DISGRACEFUL RIOTS. Directly it was apparent that the agreement would be rejected two thousand strikers went to the Albert dock with a view to boarding the steamer Calypso, to bring ashore supposed nonunionists. The attack was unexpect- ' ed. .All the police were engaged in guarding the Station Hotel, and four North-Eastern Railway policemen were roughly handled in endeavorrriug to explain to the strikers that they were under a misapprehension regarding those working on the Calypso. A hundred and ten policemen, marching at the double, came to the rescue, and using their batons freely drove the strikers to the bridge, whence they threw stones, brioks and broken bottles. The' police charged up the steps, and I after the charge seventeen police and strikers wexe taken to the hosptal. ' Many others were injured. The strikers also wrecked the ex--1 terior cf the Shipping Federation's free labour burea.i and Wilson's shipping offices. They are now parading the town wrecking lamp posts, and tearing up flagstones. A WOMEN'S RIOT. Earlier in the day four thousand women, many carrying babies, assembled at the offices of the Independent Labour Party, where a distribution of grocery tickets was made. A free fight ensued l upon the discovery that some of the women were wives of men in 'full work. The police inter- i vened and the distribution of groceries j was stopped.