COMMUNIST-PLANNED STRIKE ON LONDON DOCKS
LONDON, April 21 (Recd. 6 p.m.) The “Daily Telegraph’s” industrial correspondent says London’s docks will be in the grip of a widespread though not complete Communist-planned strike today with a trade union domestic quarrel as a pretext. The strike, which is unofficial, started on Wednesday over the expulsion of three members of the Transport and General Workers’ Union and spread rapidly yesterday—the total of idle men increasing to 6737 from 1856. Forty-one ships e were idle. The Communists hoped that the stoppage would be extended last night by the National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers, which is in dispute with employers over the proposed introduction of a permanent dock labour scheme. Communists have conspired to link the two disputes in the hope of effecting a general stoppage, but a mass meeting of the Stevedores’ Union, while rejecting the scheme and refusing to refer it to Arbitration, took no strike decision. An official London Port Workers’ Committee has called for this morning a meeting of all employees, dockers, stevedores, and lightermen to decide the next step.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 22 April 1950, Page 5
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