TROOPS UNLOADING FOOD

Chronicle (Levin), 8 July 1949, Page 5

TROOPS UNLOADING FOOD

Further Mes Join Striking London Dockers Received Friday, 10.55 a,m. LONDON, Ju,y 7. S.cQts Guards and sajilors Qf ihe Royai Navy moved into the Lyndon, dockyards ioday to uhload foodstuffs from ships involved in the • port stoppagd. Another 250 men joined the 8600 dockers who are idle af ter ref using tq unload the two Canadian ships which are strikebound beeause * qf the Canadian seamen's disRute. At Wapping about 500 porfc WQrkers reso.ved to stop work if ihe troops were not withdrawn immediately. Employers Stand Firm. Emp oyers have refused to assign dockers to other ships until the two Canadian vesse's are unloaded. The stoppage, now in its second week, is hoxding up work qn 96 ships. Seven others are undermanned. Soldiers are expected to tackle, as one of their first jobs, seyeral thousand tons pf rneat from Ihe Blue Star Line ship Argentina. Star, Naval men will operate the. cranes. At ieast. six ships with cargo and passengers for New Zealand and Australia are held up, and neany - 1000, passengers due to leave in : these, ships are being delayed. The ships immediately affected , :include the Shaw Savill and Albion iLine's Larges Bay and Gothic and ■ .the Port Line's Port Phi lip, p0rt ' Jackson, Port Linco.n and Mag- ! , hard, all of which were due to sail within the next 14 days.