TRANSPORT WORKERS' STRIKE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 471, 5 June 1912, Page 5

TRANSPORT WORKERS' STRIKE.

WILL NOT PREACH GOOD BEHAVIOUR. By Telegraph— PreasAssociation.— Copyright Lnndjn, Monday. A dock manager describes the men as stampeding back to work. One company wanted 280, and received 1500 applications. At a meeting of 30,000 men at Tower Hill a member of the Stevedores' Union, who presided, said that the leaders were not going to preach good behaviour any longer, as it had been taken as an indication of weakness. / The speaker recalled the remark made by the Home Secretary last night, when he said that food must be brought to London. The speaker advised the men to go hungry. Mr Gosling, secretary of the Transport Workers' Federation, urged the strikers to be more enthusiastic. There was plenty of work to be done, he said, in keeping the blacklegs from the docks. Mr Ben Tillet said that the employers of the port were robbing 40,000 men of one shilling a day. The strikers, he said, were starting a mighty unrest, which would continue until the wealth of the world belonged to the wealth makers. Mr Torrey, chairman of the Atlantic Transport Company, say that the refusal of the employers to meet the men was due to the fact that the masters were not prepared to sit in the same room as some of the men's leaders. This remark, he says, docs not apply to Mr Gosling. The Daily News states that some weekß before the strike the Government promised Mr Gosling a full inquiry into the workers' grievances on condition that strike notices were not issued. The strikers, it is stated, accepted the offer, but, nevertheless, the notices were issued. The Southampton dockerß threaten to strike for higher wages, which the employers have refused. The men working at the dockß now number 3200, or 1200 above- the number working on Friday. The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers has secured 600 men to work the steamers Otway, Waimana, Rangatira and Turakina. The men were conveyed by a special train to the Victoria Dockp. The brokers at Covent Garden have commenced enrolling 1000 men for the purpose of unloading fruit and vegetables. They are paying Is an hour. The London Building Industries' Federation has decided• to withdraw all men employed by them at the docks and wharves in London. Twenty unions ore affected, and several thousand men will be rendered idle. LLOYD GEORGE'S CRITICISM. RESENTED BY EMPLOYERS. London, Tuesday. The employers of the port of London attended the" Home Office without result. It is reported that Mr Lloyd George irritated the employers in criticising their reply to the Government's proposals. His expressions were after wards withdrawn. NEW ZEALAND CARGOES. London, Tuesday. The New Zealand Shipping Company has engaged all the men it can find to work for the company including many strikers. Thirty thousand carcases have been unloaded from the Waimana, Rangatira and Turakina and placed in cold storage. The absence of lightermen remains a difficulty since they cannot be replaced owing to Royal charters. In connection with the refusal of the port of London authority to allow the Bteamer Lady Jocelyn, with free labourers aboard, to enter the Albert Dock, the Shipping Federation is considering the making of application for a mandamus to compel the authority to admit the Lady Jocelyn. Twenty-six thousand dockers and . 800 stevedores receive 10s strike pay on Wednesday.