SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
BIQ MEETING IN LONDON. e MEN STEADILY JOINING IN. By Teleeraph—Press Association-Copyrlnht (Rec. June 15, 0.15 p.m.) London, June 15. Mr. Havelock Wilson, secretary of the International Seafarers' Union, and organiser of tho international shipping strike now beginning, addressed a gathering of six thousand seamen in the East End of London yesterday. Resolutions in favour of tho strike were enthusiastically carried. A striko has been proclaimed at Bristol, Hull, Sunderland, Manchester, Cardiff, ami Shields, in addition to the ports previously mentioned. The strikers are demanding: Tho establishment of a Conciliation Board, A minimum wnge for sailors and firemen of .£5 10s. a month on carijo boats and £6 on mail boats. Overtimo pay at tho rato of ninepence an hour until midnight and a shilling an hour until six o'clock in the morning. CREWS REFUSE TO SIGN ON, SHIPPING LINES EMBARRASSED. London, June 1-i. The seamen at Shields have pledged themselves to strike. , Six hundred seamen and firemen at Liverpool have refused to sign on on the White Star and Canadian Pacific Railway liners. The crews of the Union Castle Royal Mail steamers have made a demand for increased wages.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1155, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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192SEAMEN'S STRIKE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1155, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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