LONDON DOCKERS' STRIKE.
LEADERS HOWLED DOWN. MEN LEAVE HALL IN A BODY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, July 22. Messrs Gosling and Bevan, of the Transport Workers' Union, were howled down by 5000 dockers when they attempted to put the union's case before the meeting. As soon as the leaders mounted the platform the crowd booed and cried, "Traitors," "swine" "cowards;" "you have sold us." Unofficial leaders thereupon called upon the dockers to show their contempt for the 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, but Mr Bevan said he would make another effort to convince the men. Mr J- H. Thomas, Labour M.P., speaking at Derby, said that If the principles„ behind the dockers' strike represented the intentions of any large mass of workers it would mean the end of collective bargaining and the end of trades unionism itself.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15294, 24 July 1923, Page 5
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159LONDON DOCKERS' STRIKE. Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15294, 24 July 1923, Page 5
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