INDUSTRIAL UNSRET.
THE TRANSPOBT STRIKE.
steamers’held UP.
PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, June 18. The Strike Committee states that machinery will be put in operation, blocking all vessels deserted from continental and home ports. Several Atlantic liners are delayed at Southampton, where 200 extra police arrived. Outside labour is also interfered with owing to the strike. The departure of the Wairaana, Rangitirand Norseman is postponed indefinitely. They carry 2.600 immigrants for New South Wales and 500 for Victoria.
TILLETT GETS CHAMPAGNE.
LONDON, June 19,
Ben Tillott was recognised in a restaurant drinking champagne. Ho was hissed.
Justifying, the incident at Tower Hill Tillett said: “Meeting a rich lady, she asked me to dine with her and promised to feed a thousand of om little children. I should never drink anything except champagne if I could get it nor should you.”
Voice from crowd: “How can wop’ Tillett: “Pinch it.”
FRENCH SEAMEN STRIKE,
PARIS, June 19.—The seamen ol Marseilles have resolved on a genera' strike.
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West Coast Times, 20 June 1912, Page 3
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163INDUSTRIAL UNSRET. West Coast Times, 20 June 1912, Page 3
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