DISPUTE WITH P. & 0. CO.
SUPPORT PROM TRANSPORT WORKEHS. By Telegraph—Press AESoclatlon-CosyrlgM (Bee. May 5, 0.30 a.m.) London, Mar 8. The dispute with the P. and O. Company centred in the Mooltan, which has a crew of 326, of whom 111 are Europeans. Of these only ten are able-bodied senmen, Tlie union demanded that forty white seamen should be carried. Newspapers state that a hundred of the crew declined to sign on the Mooltan. The officers state that the crew held a meeting in the saloon, and considering the union instructions were unreasonable and hasty, declined to leave the ship. The London District Transport Workers' Federation, representing one hundred thousand members, resolved to support the strikers, and to send a deputation, to tho P. and O. Co. to-day. The Orient Co. has already agreed to carry two efficient white seamen for each lifeboat. The "Morning Post" states that ten seamen are insufficient, and if the P. and O. Co. are unwilling to raise the complement they ought to be forced to do so by law*. DEMANDS OF UNION REFUSED. London, May 7. Tho Peninsular and Oriental Company has refused the union's demands, and tho men have struck.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1435, 9 May 1912, Page 5
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197DISPUTE WITH P. & 0. CO. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1435, 9 May 1912, Page 5
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