MARITIME STRIKE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14483, 3 July 1911, Page 5

MARITIME STRIKE.

. I A STRENUOUS FIGHT. | A SHIP-OWNERS' MOVE, THE END IN SIGHT. Press Association—By Tol.—Copyright. LONDON, June 30. The Shipping Federation is arranging to render temporarily idle half the shipping tonnage of tho United Kingdom. Tlie Joint Strike Committee at Liverpool have issued a list .of Si firms who have agreed: to a satisfactory settlement with 2000 dockers, who still revolt against tlie mere recognition of the Union and insist on a. guarantee of Union, wages. THE STRIKE EXTENDING. Tho Unionist dockers on tho Thames have struck for a uniform wage, and' the non-union dockora at Surrey Commercial docks have ntruck. -The dockers at Liverpool ignored the leaders' app?.aj to accept a settlement, and started a fresh revolt. Three thousand new members of tho Dockers' Union have been• enrolled 1 . The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway men at the North Docks, declinedto handle goods landed by blackleg labour. The Suevio's apples have l'ot been discharged, and it is probable that the Papanui's also will not bo discharged. " There were outbreaks of fire in four places on. the Arabic. Incendiarism is suspected.. RIOTING AT HULL. Fifteen thousand men are idle at Hull: Two squadrons of Scotch Guards at York are ready to procejed to Hull, and fivg hundred Metropolitan police havo been sent there. Rioting continued till 2 o''clock in the morning, and several constables and a score of civilians were injured. The mounted police charged and dispersed the mobs. The police at Manchester havo been reinforced in the vicinity of the docks. TROUBLE ABROAD. The dockers at Amsterdam are molesting men and their wives and children, and ore breaking ship-chandlers' windows and maltreating employees. Twenty Chinese stokers have arrived and will sign on the Noderland liners. The Shippers' Union at Antwerp agreed to pay wages current at Hamburg and'other competing Continental ports. ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE MEN. Received 5.5 . p.m., July 2nd. LONDON, July 1. The Houldor lino have agreed to concede tho men's terms on all their ships. Mr G. R, Asltwith has left. Hull, where' he attempted to bring about an agreement. The negotiations were broken off through the seamen's representatives seeking to persuade the men to agree to amend their claims, enabling the repoening of the negotiations. The seamen are determined to support the dockers' demands. FIRES AND INTIMIDATION. Received 1.25 a.m., July 3rd. LONDON, July 2. There was a fresh outbreak of fire on tho Arabic, also an outbreak on the steamer Canada. Tlie tug boatmen struck, thus affecting the handling of twenty-three steamers including tho Lusttania. They declared that they were not dissatisfied', "but intimidated by the strikars. • SETTLEMENT IN VIEW. Subsequently a settlement was reached. All the Liverpool firms engaged in coasting, including the dockers' leaders, are convinced that -the whole strike will be settled to-mor-row. It is officially announced 'that tlie Cunard. White Star, and other "combine" lines, also Harrison's, will recognise tho docker unionists, and attend a conference within a month for the settlement of wages and conditions of labour.