INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 20, 21 May 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

LONDON WATERS!i)E STHIKI

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.}

London, May 19

The employment of a non-union watchman at Millwall docks resulted in the masters discharging 2000 men

for refusing to handle goods belonging to the firm concerned. Jhe \Vat;>rir.eu’s Union has resolved to call out a further 5000 men. An extension of the trouble throughout the Port of London is feared.

STRIKE OF RAILWAYMEN.

London, May 20. A mooting of raihvaymen in BiriiaCa.a resolved that the time fins

come for a minimum living wage. Mr. E. Charles, a member of the* Great Western Conciliation Board said that the Amalgamated Society intended to ask fob a minimum of 25s per week. There were 95,000 railwayman in receipt of £1 a week more or less.

TOM MANN

London, May 20

A meeting of 8000 people in J ratal gar Square demanded Tom Mann’s re least; and protested against Miss Ma! ceka’s sentence.

SENTENCE REDUCED

(Received 21, 9.30 a.m.) London, May 20

Tom Mann’s sentence has been reduced to two months, and Bowman, who was imprisoned for printing an appeal to soldiers not to shoot -strikers, has been released. Mr Keir Hardie is distributing a gift by the Newcastle Colliery Employees’ Federation in districts where distress is keen, owing to the nonstarting of collieries. Lightermen and bargemen at the Victoria and Albert docks have struck.