LABOUR UNREST.
THE DOCKERS STRIKE. " SIGNS OF COLLAPSE. Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyrig LONDON, Tuesday. At a meeting, lasting five hours, the dockers’ unofficial strike committee adopted a resolution asking the union officials to negotiate with the employers for the resumption of work, suggesting that the employers waive the latest “cut” of Is in wages, seeing that Parliament itself declares the cost of living basis is wrong.
It is pointed out that this interpretation of Parliament’s opinion is open to question. Earlier in the day the annual conference of transport workers adopted a resolution urging tk'e dockers to return to work, so as to maintain their organised „ strength, and enable their grievances to be dealt with unitedly. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
SETTLEMENT URGED.
(Received Wednesday, 9.10 a.m.)
■LONDON, Tuesday.
The dockers’ unofficial strike committee decided] to send a deputation to the transport workers’ conference to-day to ask the Union to negotiate with the employers for the resumption of work at the old rates. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14960, 11 July 1923, Page 5
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