DOCKERS' STRIKE.
TWENTY THOUSAND MEN OUT BLOCK AT LONDON. Uj Tclecrapb—Proas Association—Copyrteh? London, August 4. Somo of tho voxels wliicli have boon unablo to unload in London in consequence of the dockers' strike have been ordered to Antwerp. The foreign unions, however, lnivo been instructed to boycott 11)0111. There aro twenty thousand strikers on tho • Thninns, including- six hundred lightermen. The Chamber of Commerce has arranged for a conference at which thfl masters and men have agreed to accept Sir A. IC. liollit as arbitrator. Tho conforcnco is to decide whether dockers' work is stevedores' work, and consequently whether dockcrs aro entitled to a rate of eightponco an hour. Nineteen trades connected with tho Clydo shipbuilding and engineering, industries are demanding an advance of a shilling weekly in tho rales for piecework.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 5
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132DOCKERS' STRIKE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 5
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