Three Countries Involved In British Dock Dispute
Received Thursday, 10 a.m. • LONDON, June lv British trade union lea'ders stryggling to eontrol the dispiites crippling the major pirts of Liverpool Avonmouth and Br-istol were faoec to night with a new hazard. With their union member-s drawi into a dispute \tfhich they regafde ' as purely Canadian, they..:saw t-b situation transf orme'd- into one q. the most complicated industria disputes of modern.. tim^s by thr thr ea t of intervention by the trade unionists of a third country— tht United States— who may takr action against ^British ships. . ' ■ The latest development is a re-. petition of the threat by the Ameri can Federation of Labour ane Maritime Tra-des Council to boycott British ships in 'the United States unless the British dock workers abandon their present support oi the Canadian Seamen's Union in its dispute with the rival Seafarers; Internationai Union, which is ai A.F.L. aifiliate.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 June 1949, Page 5
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