IN LONDON.
DOCKERS GRADUALLY RESUMING, JJIiAlt FOOD. London, August 10. Work is being gradually resumed at the London docks. Tho Port Authority has reinstated the strikers. Jlr. Winston Churchill, Home Secretary,l announced in the lloiiso of Commons that a fresh dillicully had arisen with the London dockers, who were op-' posing tho employment of non-unionists at the Albert Docks. Owing to tho strikes tho newspapers aro discussing the question of probablo shortago of food in war lime, and the problem ot' national granaries. A thousand tons of food was destroyed in tho docks and warehouses. Large clearances aro being made at the depots in London. The streets aro crowded with merchandise. 1 Retail prices of butter, ham, bacon, and foodstull's have risen 20 jer cent. Owing to cost' of carriage and tho drought vegetables and truit aro enormously dearer.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1209, 18 August 1911, Page 7
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139IN LONDON. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1209, 18 August 1911, Page 7
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