The Dock Labourers Strike

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 36, 7 September 1889, Page 2

The Dock Labourers Strike

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyrigb.l 1 PEH UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION. ! London. September 4. The steamer Fifeshire is half unloaded, but only a small portion of the Kaikoura's cargo has been taken out The Tainui's departure is indefinite. Mrs Gladstone has been visiting the homes of the strikers, and hat subscribed to the funds. The latter are increasing in amount. Burns says the strike at Liverpool vriil counteract shipping thither, also at Glasgow. Similar steps will be taken at Southampton if necessary. Canon Holland and the Revs Mason and. Lester, who are among the leading clergy of the East End of London, have sent letters of sympathy to the strikers. Fifteen thousand pickets are distributed about the docks. Lord Mayor Whitehead will mediate in Oetoher between the men and the dock companies. The situation between the Dock Companies and the strikers remains unchanged, and both sides show a dogged resolution not to give way. The New Zealand shipping Company's Kaikoura succeeded in landing six thousand carcases of mutton. September 51 The vast majority of the labourers on the wharves on the Middlesex side of the river have resumed work, and some of those ou the Surrey side. The Strikers' Committee are yielding to the demands of the wharfingers and granary merchants, and have allowed the strikers to resume work where the deniauds have be' n conceded. The strike is exteuding to the iron, building and timber trades, although not to the general trades. The lightermen and watermen preserve pre -iaely the same attitude of resistenoe, ■ v many wh =rf .laborers and gvnary men are accepting work on the concession agreed to yesterday of 6d an hour ordinary and 8d overtime, two shillings to be the minimum, abolition of contrasts and sharing profits equally with foreman. Burns desires to arrive at a rapid settlement with, wharf owners, in order isolate the docks. The generosity of the Australian unions has aroused the utmost enthusiasm, especially as plontv of srmpafchy was rjceived fio^n the United Statea and Canada, but no money.

Dunedin, Septembpr 5. The Federated Seamen's Union have decided to send £200 to the dock labourers on strike in London. Auc .land, 3p- temper 5 The Knights of Labour have opeued lists for subscriptions in aid of the London docks strikers. Public subscription lists have been opened for assistance to the London Dock strikers. The workmen employed in shipping receiving, &c, have also decided to establish a fund for this cauße. A committee has been appointed to make arrangements,