DOCKERS’ STRIKE

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 24 July 1923, Page 8

DOCKERS’ STRIKE

TROUBLE AT TILBURY. FEB FBBSS ASSOCIATION—COFYBIGHT London, July 23. Strikers marching from London reached Tilbury as iue dock workers were signing on and persuaded several hundred to join the strike. Work was consequently stopped on two New Zealand boats, two P. and O. and Clau liners and several smaller vessels. Those marching rteurned to London, leaving pickets. LONDON, July 22. Messrs Gosling and Bevan, of the Transport Workers’ Union were howled down by five thousand dockers, when they attempted to put the Unions’ case before the meeting. As soon as the leaders mounted the platform the crowd booed them ana cried “traitors,” “swine,” “coward,” “you have sold us.” The unofficial leaders thereupon called the dockers to show contempt for their leaders by leaving the hall, which they did, leaving only the leaders on the platform. Messrs Gosling and Bevan were greatly affected by the treatment. Mr Bevan said he would make another effort to convince the men. LONDON, July 23. The Labour leader, Mr J. H. Thomas speaking at Derby, said that if the principles behind the dockers’ strike represent the intentions of any large mass of the workers, they will mean the end of collective bargaining and the end of trade.-, unionism itself.