LABOUR WARFARE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1452, 29 May 1912, Page 5

LABOUR WARFARE.

TRANSPORTERS'. MANIFESTO. THREAT TO USE " EXTREME ACTION. MEAT CARGOES DISCHARGED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Rec. May 28, 9.5 p.m.) London, May 28. Arrangements have been made in connection with tlie transport strike by which the unloading of meat cargoes continues. Eleven hundred police are protecting the workers, who consist of foremen and tally clerks and a force of meat porters from Manchester. Troops aro in readiness if needed, while firemen at the dock gates are prepared to quench excitable men. The various convoys reached Smithfield market unmolested. Eight hundred naval reservists have volunteered to discharge vessels. There aro over two hundred vessels held up. The S.trike Committee has withdrawn the facilities given for working refrigerators, and has requested foreign unions not to handle diverted ships. A manifesto has also been issued warning the Government against repressive measures. Otherwise extreme action will be taken. The committee states that it will not treat with sectional employers, and orders all transport workers to cease work forthwith. It is estimated that the concession of the men's demands would impose an additional burden of ,£150,000 yearly on the fort of London Authority. Some vessels are unloading at Queenborough, in the Isle of Sheppcy, instead of at London. who usually coal the warships are being em-ployed, and are assisted by strike-breakers from Dover, STEWARDS ON STRIKE, THE OSTEELEY HELD UP. London, May 27. Owing to the waterside workers' strike the passengers by the Orient Company's steamer Osterley, 12,129 tons, from Australia, were obliged to handle their own luggage. The steamer's stewards and others have struck for better ventilated quarters and more lifeboats. The secretary of the Orient Company and the Osterley's captain and chief officer worked the winch in 'order to lower an eight-oared boat belonging to the Australian crew, who are to take part in the Olympic Games at .Stockholm. The boat was placed in a lorry, but the strikers prevented the lorry from leaving the Tilbury Docks, and threatened to make difficulties in connection with its transportation to Marlow. The authorities offered the protection' of twenty-five police, but Captain Horniman (manager of the Australasian Olympic team) refused, trusting to the strikers' sportsmanship. The strikers then good-naturedly allowed the lorry to pass. GENERAL LABOUR UNREST. DEMANDS AND SHRIKES. (Eec. ; -May-"-28r K6 pirn.) London, May 28. The conference of the National Association of Grocers' Assistants has instructed its executive to take ■ steps to secure fli minimum wage. The Gas Workers' and General Labourers' Union Conference at Sunderland decided to withdraw from the General Trade Union Federation, because it had not received strike pay an connection with recent strikes And lock-outs. Six hundred labourers in the Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard at Govaa have struck for an increase of a halfpenny an hour, and the of the National Amalgamation of Labour. P. AND 0. SAILINGS AFFECTED. London, May 27. The sailings of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's 6teamers Cecilia and Candia have been Indefinitely postponed owing to the strike. A butcher from Smithfield markets unloaded an Argentine cargo of meat, and conveyed it by motor to Smithfield, under police protection.