TRANSPORT STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1465, 13 June 1912, Page 5

TRANSPORT STRIKE.

' SMALL ENTHUSIASM FOR GENERAL STOPPAGE. SOME WILD; TALK. By It-lesraph—Press . London, June 11. Officials or the Bopkers-' Feu.erati'oh..- .-; state fh.afc the. res'jioiis'B -to the goner';;! - , striko- order has not- beeii extensive. The ■' positioii at the' I'ort of [.ondoii is u'licl'.aiigoi. There are. SViG' men working. f- 1 there, and ono hundred vessels lire iiii-■ > . loading. J hirtepn ■tho'ijs'a.rid. provincial (Ic-ck.ers. 1 l.iav.e struck. Those, -on strike in -L.pri.den number l'Jo,oo'j. -.. i ll© 'n'Vembeiis -o.f' f lip .Seain.'eit-s and Fire? ,; inen's Union- .ari? balloting, -as t® ; 'vvhetlver. to?" "-illjoin the -trtfns'p.ort workers on- ■). strike. Th,e' rosult iv'iii be : declared .pn'.'i : - i Monday next. I . Sonic, ships! fr.pni London arc loading at '■ ■ -Grimsby. ■ " ! Two thousand men ■ havo struck at I : ; Plym:otit)i, and. t.vi'O -thousand at Spiitli-. ' aiiipton. ■ , Ship? arg- held up at Bristol, Manehe-s----fer,, and Sunderland. rl' o t.xecu.t'ive, of the Dockers' -Union,-; ■tmbracuig' workers -iii- Liverpool, ; Scot--- ' "'td Ireland, lias decided hot' to strike. >• I'epor's from the provinces statp that; 7 there is no enthusiasm, .for- the strike',. ' ■■ ASSASSINATIONS THREATENED, Wild- talk by jik. tillett. London, June 11. T'lis families': of str-ik.e'rs: iii- Lp'hdoh '-are'.. ■ 'stifterinj. 'great' privations.. L.xtrd pojico. have lieeii drafted to' .the, : dock districts; Svhere a. number, pf at- ,. .at ■■ihiimidati'.bn. we'ro 'frus.trat^j:!-. ' A free fight, occurred at Poplar, wiiero . fitrikb breakers; who oro: iii -a majority, ■ resented tho -action oi pickets aiid at- i tacked thprp. : ' f ■ Hch Tillett, ..'speaking at Tgwer-.-E :;Hili;. mado ;a throat against the life of Lord Dev.onporl, Chairnian of !ho Port ■■ of London Authority. -Ho- said: "Th*. ' ■ Cinployers \v.ant the (joyeniment to ivU-iv : out tho. soldiery to shoot you. Tlio Tories • arc ''"landing your cliildren's. blood; Ji '. ;:' our men are going to, Ik; murdered, 1, nm ■ ;Soiiig -to, .-shoot-. Lord X)oyo]iport, ];as.' i been responsible for the strike," ..POLICE: PROTECTION. A CURIOUS SITUATION". L ; "- ■ . London, June 11. . . Oyi'i.g t" conditions attached to Mr. " Xl '' li ' onßa ' s of a hundred'polico to' ; ; protect Houlder .Bros.' steamers, at Pur--I'eej, tho Essex aathenties doelineil x, eeptanee ,'of tho-offer, and obta'iiicd two, " hundred ■ Birmingham .-policemen. ' ;