SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1169, 3 July 1911, Page 5

SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

HALF BRITAIN'S SHIPPING TO BE LAID UPDISTURBANCES CONTINUE. By TelcEranh—Press Association-OoDyricht (Rcc. July 3, 1.10 n.ui.) London, July 2. Mr. G. B. Askwith, head of the Labour Department ol tho Board of Trade, has left Hull, and tho negotiations for the settlement of tho dispute havo been broken oft", though tho seamen's representatives are seeking to persuade the men to agree to their amended claims so as to enable negotiations to bo reopened.

The seamen are determined to support :he dockers' demands.

A fresh outbreak of fire has occurred on the Arabic, and there has also been an o"tbreak on the steamer Canada.

The tug boatmen havo struck, thus affecting the handling of twenty-three steamers, including tho Lusitania. They declared that they were not dissatisfied, but had been intimidated by the strikers. Subsequently a settlement was reached.

All the Liverpool firms engaged in the coasting trade, and tho dockers' leaders also are convinced that the whole strike will be settled to-morrow.

It is officially announced that the Cunard, White Star, and other lines belonging to tho Atlantic Combine, together with tho Harrison line, will recognise the Dockers' and Seamen's Unions and attentt" a conference within a month for tho settlement of wages f.nd conditions of labour. SHIPPING TO BE LAID UP. DISTURBANCES IN ALL QUARTERS. London, Juno 30. The Shipping Federation is arranging for tho temporary laying idle of half the shipping tonnago of the United Kingdom. Tho joint Strike Committee at Liverpool has issued a list of twenty-four firms .who have agreed to a satisfactory settlement, but two thousand (lockers are still in revolt against the refusal to recognise the union, and insist on a guarantee of union wages. Tho unionist dockers on the Thames have struck for a uniform wage. Non-union dockers at the Surrey Commercial dock have,.struck. Five hundred London Metropolitan police have been sent to Hull, where rioting continued until 2 o'clock in the morning. Several constables and a score of civilians were injured. Mounted police charged and dispersed the mobs.

The police nt Manchester have been reinforced in the vicinity of the docks.

Three thousand new members of the Dockers' Union have been enrolled at Liverpool.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire railwaymen at the north docks decline to handle goods landed by "blackleg" labour. The Suevic's apples are undischarged, and it is probable that the Papanui's consignment will be similarly treated.

An outbreak of fire in four places occurred on tho steamer Arabic. Incendiarism is suspected.

Fifteen thousand men are idle at Hul owing to the strike.

Two squadrons of Scots Guards at York are ready to proceed to Hull. The dockers at Liverpool ignored their leaders' appeal to accept a settlement, and started a fresh revolt. POSITION IN HOLLAND. INCREASE IN WAGES GRANTED. Antwerp, Juno 30. The Shippers' Union has agreed to pay tho wages current at Hamburg and other competing Continental ports. NON-UNIONISTS MOLESTED. The Hague, June 30. Tho dockers at Amsterdam are molesting tho non-union men and their wives and children, breaking the shipchandlers' windows, and maltreating their employees. ' Twenty Chinese stokers have arrived to sign on tho Nederland liners.