SERIOUS RIOTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 5

SERIOUS RIOTS.

SEAMEN REJECT SETTLEMENT.

MANY AFFRAYS WITH POLICE AT HULL. BUILDINGS WRECKED. By Telegraph—Prc.3B Association-Oopyrleht (Rec. Juno 30, 10.55 p.m.) London, Juno 30. The situation in connection with the seamen's striko grows increasingly serious, and there has been much disorder at Hull. Mr. G. R. Askwith, head of the Labour Department of the Board of Trade, has unsuccessfully intervened, with a view to settling the dispute. Yesterday, at Hull, Mr. Askwith presided at a conference between fifty Hull shipowners and the men's delegates, who included representatives of the seamen, firemen, dockers, lighter-men, and coal porters. Terms of Settlement. The terms of settlement agreed upon included a Saturday half-holiday for the dockers, end a half-day off weekly for sailors and firemen. The masters agreed not to compel the men to have a Shipping Federation ticket. The weekly wages were fixed at 325. Gd., being an advance of 2s. 6d. on the present rates. The monthly wage was fixed at 90s. for sailors, and 955. for firemen. The men's leaders submitted the proposed settlement to a crowd of twelve thousand assembled outsido the Royal Station Hotel. Mr. Askwith, in a speech to the crowd, stated that the men's representatives endorsed the agreement, as also did a largo committee of workers who had been consulted. We Will Starve First! The crowd, however, greeted the proposal to accept the agreement with shouts of "No! Wo!" "Wo will starvo first!" "Go back to tho employers!" The dockers, who were in a majority in the crowd, wero particularly insistent against the agreement. Directly it was apparent that the agreement would be rejected two thousand of the strikers went to tho Albert Dock with a view to hoarding tho steamer Calypso to bring ashore supposed non-unionists. The attack on the Calypso was unexpected, and all the police were engaged in guarding the Royal Station Hotel. Riot at the Docks. Pour North-Eastern railway policemen wore roughly handled, while they wcTe. endeavouring to explain to the strikers that they wero under a misapprehension regarding those "working on the Calypso. A force of 110 policemen, marching at the double, came to the rescue, and, using their batons freely, drove the strikers to a bridge. From this vantage stand tho men threw stones, bricks, and broken bottles at polico who charged up the steps. After tho charge seventeen police and strikers were taken to the Hospital. Many others wero also injured. Buildings Wrecked. The strikers wrecked the exterior of the Shipping Federation's free labour bureau, and the shipping offices of tho Wilson Line. The strikers paraded the town wrecking lamp posts and tearing up flagstones. Earlier in the day four thousand women, many of .them carrying babies, assembled at the offices of tho Independent Labour Party, where a distribution of grocery tickets was made. A free fight ensued upon the discovery that some of the women were the wives of wen in full work. Tho polico then intervened, and tho distribution of groceries was stopped. A STATE OF CHAOS. VESSELS IDLE EVERYWHERE. London, Juno 29. The latest development in connection with the seamen's strike is that the Cunard and Canadian Pacific lines havo rocognised all the unions, including tho dockers. Five hundred stewards on the Combine lines at Liverpool have struck. The White Star liner Zeeland was unable to moor at the landing-stage, and passengers had to be landed by tender. The crew of the Mersey lightship have struck. Fifty vessels, including several Atlantic linors aro idle at Manchester. The crews of vessels at Dublin have also struck. The flourmillors at Hull have demanded an increase of wages. A thousand extra polico are now at Hull. Mr. Askwith, of tho Hoard of Trade, attended a conference between the shipowners and the men's representatives. The dockers at Grimsby have struck for an increase of pay and for an hour less per day. The Central Railway Company has arranged terras with its own sailors and firemen. STRIKERS ATTACK MILLS. POLICE CHARGE THE MOB. London, June 29. A mob at Hull, hearing that the firemen had refused to strike, attacked Joseph Rauks's flour mills and Reckitts' starch and blue mills. They rushed into the buildings, but wero ejected by the police. The mob stoned the police and broko the windows of the buildings. Women and children wero trampled upon when the polico charged, injuring a dozen men. Finally the polico turned the hose on tho mob. The nows that Mr. G. R. Askwith, of tho Board of Trade, was coming to Hull to confer with the employers and the strike leaders, had the effect of stopping the riot.