GREAT STRIKE IN LONDON.
100,000 MEN OUT, military BEING HELD IN READINESS. London, August xo. It is estimated that 20,000 dockers, 36,000 caimen, 7000 lightermen and engineers, 6000 coal porters, 8000 stevedores, and 1200 porters at Billingsgate fish market, and additional unregistered workers making over 100,000, are on strike. One hundred and fifty vessels laideu with wheat, butter, and fruit, are lying in the Thames undischarged. All available motors and steam tractors are taking iood and lodder to the city. Later accounts state that the Woolwich and Aldershot commands have been ordered to be in readiness. Heavy draughts are already moving from Adershot to London. The strike situation at Liverpool is threatening. The pickets prevent goods from leaving the docks and railways depots. The goods service in the district is held up, aud the passenger service is dislocated.
Numerous disorders and outrages are reported, including the overturning of a brewer’s drag, knocking in the Bungs, and distributing beer to the mob.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1029, 12 August 1911, Page 3
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161GREAT STRIKE IN LONDON. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1029, 12 August 1911, Page 3
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