MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DOCK STRIKE GROWS. LONDON, July 3. Tbe dockers’ strike is seriously interfering with the discharge of food at .• Hull. Merchants and clerks aro assisting the crews to discharge perishable cargoes. Two thousand men a Avonmouth and Ponished to-day joined the strikers. An appeal has been made by the Secretary of the Union to the men to honour the agreement. It was reject- *" , od. The strike has quickly spread at the London docks. There are now about six thousand idle in London. So far Liverpool and Southampton are not affected. It is now expected that many more of the London dockers will refuse to work to-day. The strikers in London and the provinces now total over 20.000. In London the trouble began with the stevedores, they refusing to eon- J tinue unloading the Mariva. The strike > then extended to tlie Knikottra, Rnranga. Port Nicholson. Ilurumii, and Mnhia. all from Australian and New Zealand pons, and still produce-laden. The regular How of imported meat and other foodstuffs to the London and the provincial markets will be quickly _ interrupted if the strike continues. The cause of the strike is that, under the National Agreement. wages wore reduced a shilling per day from last. Monday, owing to a fall in the cost of living. The men. however, dispute the Board of Trade figures as to cost, of living, and they have struck in defiance of the Union leaders, who strongly urge the men to honour the agreement made in their name.

4S-ITOUR WEEK. LONDON, July 4. In the House of Commons, Mr Chas. Buxton (Labour M.P. for Accrington) introduced a Bill to fix Die maximum working week at. 48 hours. He said this measure would not affect any industry in which ti shorter working week has already l>con secured by agreement, but it would deal with the unorganised trades, where scandalously long hours prevailed. OPEN MEETING. GENEVA. July 2. After a whole day’s argument before the Council of the League of Nations. l.ord Robert Cecil won the opening meeting of the Council, to the Press and public. A BRITISH AYIX. PERIS, July 3. The Grand Prix for speed, under tlio auspices of the French Auto Club, has resulted in a win for n British SunIvonm car, driven by Soagravo. Sunbeams came also third and fourth.