DOCKERS NEXT?
MORE TROUBLE THREATENED.
(REUTERS TRLEGRASI.) .(Received 3,oth January, 11 a.m.)< LONDON, 29th January. following- the railway settlement, a .dockers' .strike is now threatened. National delegates at a conference ,of the Transport Workers' Union jn London tpd,ay, Representing workers throughout the country, decided tp instruct its members tp strike on 16th February in .all th,. por,ts-of Great Britain unless, in the meantime, a' satisfactory settlement of "tlie wages dispute was reached. The !docke**s demand an increase of 2s 3 Qn<? a guaranteed" week's *.york or. pay in order to meet the problem of. casual labour. , The employers saj- that they cannot {Afford to pay the increase demanded, which would cost £2,000,003 a year. This shpy,-s tlie depression in the shipping industry, ,
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 7
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122DOCKERS NEXT? Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 7
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