DOCKERS’ MORALS
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, November 21.
The local Trade Union Secretary had the greatest in preventing 1200 dockers in Manchester from ceasing work and marching to the Town Hall as a protest against the Mayor of Salford’s statement at a dinner that dockers took up with lasses and lived in a single room, thereby producing: a population which was a menace to The town, and leaving them chargeable on tuo rates. The Secretary declared it was a malicious attack on the morals of the dockers and their wives. He added: :“I feel like handing him (the mayor)' over to the women. The Mayor privately received a deputation of protesting dockers, hut refused to apologise. He said lie did not mean all tlie dockers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1928, Page 5
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