The London Strike
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright^ (PER UMTBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) .;> . ' . London, September 18.- .si Work at th« docks is proceeding! qmetiy, except at the Albert Dock, where the unionists refuse to work, with the blacklegs. Lord Mayor Whitebead and Cardinal' Manning urgo the strikers to> fulfil the terms of agreement. The dock riotsj were suppressed by police before any great harm wasdone. No fatalities occurred, and th» Directors of the Companies "have determined to resist opposition of regular hands, and retain " blacklegs" in spite of them. Tillet, chairman of the Labourers' Union, deprecates violence. September 19. . The shipping ring' intend shortly to increase the freights to the colonies in order to recoup the losses incurred by the recent strike. Eight- hundred men are now working: at the Albert Dock, and no further trouble has arisen. - s September 20. With the balance (£8000) 6t. the strike fund, it 13 proposed £o repay the advfencea made by the Trades Union, the remainderto be devoted to the establishment of a new Union in liondbru '
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 42, 21 September 1889, Page 2
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172The London Strike Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 42, 21 September 1889, Page 2
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