HOPES FOR END OF STRIKE TOMORROW
Received Thursday, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 15. The strikers, at a delegates meeting, decided by a heavy vote to continue the strike. The secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Mr. Arthur Deakin, at the conclusion of the meeting, said the meeting stands adjourned until tomorrow morning, when a further meeting with the ."strike.. committee will take.-plice. | : He' ft&cfed : { "The conference will be recalled for 2 p.m. and I am hopeful that it will bring the business to a close." Many of the ships affected by the strike of dock workero Fi O Y70 UQVrYAAci r\"P
J IICIVV^ KsUJ-L ^ uoo UI J UWU. j from New Zealand, Australia, Argentine and the West Indies, t says the Evening News. Long j lines of railway wagons waiting to distribute the cargoes of sheep "and lambs from New » Zealand stand by empty. The National Dock Labour , Corporation reported that the dock labourers on strike now numbered.more than 11,000. A number of stevedores are still ' working, but it is expected that they, too, will join the strikers.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 January 1947, Page 5
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