LIVERPOOL DOCKERS OUT ON STRIKE
Support For Canadian Seamen’s Union LONDON, May 31 (Recd. 6 pm).— Thre e thousand Liverpool dockers are now on strike in sympatny with the Canadian Seamen’s Union and work ceased on 21 ships. Dockers at Avomouth and Bristol decided to senu delegates to all major British ports to explain their case and ask lor support. The Minister of Labour, Mr. George Isaacs, who reported to Cabinet on the West Coast dockers’ strikes and week-end strikes by railwaymen in aorth-east England, later urged rail waymen to abandon their “irresponsible action.’’ He warned them that their present method of trying to settle the problem was a “danger signal.’’ Dangers were an inconvenience io the public, damage to industrial collective bargaining ano repudiation of trade unions. Railwaymen, protesting against new working schedules, have announced they will keep striking every Sunday until their claims are met.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 June 1949, Page 5
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