LABOUR DEMANDS.
MARSEILLES RESERVISTS OUT. SHIPPING IDLE.
By Telesrrapii-Press Association-Oopyrieht . (Rec. April 5, 11.40 p.m.)-"'!."". n,, '.' , -. Paris,. April 5. ; Hie naval reservists at Marseilles declared a. 24 hours' strike as a protest against the prosecution'of a dozen deserters. -.'•■' ■:''•-.
Tho authorities declined to be- intimidated, and the. reservists thereupon decided that the ships should not leave Marseilles until their .demands'were satisfied. The crews of all vessels came ashore, and 600,000 tons pf cargo and the outward'mails are'detained. - The Messageries Maritimes Company have applied for bluejackets to complete their crews'. ' ' The reservists have appealed to other ports to join the strike.' ' Recent' strikes cost. Marseilles £4,000,000. '•■•■■;' STEIKE AND POVERTY IN NORTH ENGLAND. m . ~ . London, April 4. •the direst poverty -exists in hundreds of homes in Northumberland, as a re?u!* of-the threo months' strike. , Many small tradesmen have been ruined. The sum of £60,000 has already been distributed jn relief pay
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 7
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148LABOUR DEMANDS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 7
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