STRIKE VIOLENCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1502, 26 July 1912, Page 5

STRIKE VIOLENCE.

DOCKERS OUT OF HAND,

LORD DEVONPORT'S LIFE THREATENED. SEVERE FIGHT AT DOCKS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Kec. July 23, 10.25 p.m.) . London, July 25. Mr. O'Grady,. Labour M.P. for East Leeds, lias described Lord Dovonport, Chairman of the Port of London Authority, as tho "worst typo of criminal I ever came in contact with." Lord Dovonporfs house is guarded. The Strike Committee is considering calling a national stoppage, and tho extension of tho strike. The Hull dockers liavo taken a ballot for a national stoppage. After tho Tower Hill meeting 2000 dockers followed an orator and marched to the docks in two sections. Ono section upwt and plundored two bread vana, nud then commandeered a van loaded with foodstuffs. Tho second section eot two cartg on fire, one of tho carts being laden with coconut fibre, and tho other with wool. After a severe fight, tho men attempted to onter tho Katherino Dock and tho wool warehouses. Eventually the polioo reinforcements commanded tho situation.

DEATH JO LORD DEVONPORT. a , SINISTER DEMONSTRATION. London, July 24. Mr. Ben Tillott, at a meeting on Tower Hill, called on the strikers to join in his piayer, "God striko Dovonport dead!" Tho majority of the strikers Tepeated the words, and followed this by einging, "He shall die." Fifty strikers rushed the London docks before tho gates could bo closed, attacked the wharves, and. fired a wagonload of fibre. The police outsido charged a mob of two thousand who wero attempting to enter with tho object of assaulting nonunionists. ' . .. " Twenty-five riofcsns had to bo treated in tho hospital for wounds received during the conflict with tlio police. Mr. J. Havelock Wilson, secretary of tho International Seamen's Federation, is endeavouring to procure a general strike of transport workers in the provinces.