MORE TROOPS UNLOAD FOOD AT LONDON DOCKS
LONDON, April 26 (Recd 11.45 pm). —Thousands of striking London dockers assembling for a “show of strength” march through dockland to a mass meeting in East London watched another 1000 troops move into the port today to unload four cargoes. A further 600 men joined the week-old unofficial stoppage today, bringing the total of dockers, stevedores and clerks on strike to more than 14,000—more than half the total port labour force.
The unofficial port workers’ com-mittee-leaders of the strike—organised today's march to the mass meeting in East London. They invited 500 Thames bargemen, who last night postponed a decision on whether to join the strike, to attend the meeting with the dockers.—Reuter. Dockers at a mass meeting in East. London decided to continue the
, strike. They reaffirmed their decision of April 21 not to return to work until a ballot had been taken. The meeting was orderly but the police were present in force.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 April 1950, Page 5
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