GREAT SEAMAN'S STRIKE.
MORE SEAMEN GO OUT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, June 14. Seamen at Shields have pledged themselves to adhere to the strike. Six hundred seamen and firemen at Liverpool refused to sign on the White Star or Canadian-Pacific Railway liners. >
The crews of the Union-Castle and Royal Mail lines are demanding increased wages.
PROCLAIMED IN OTHER CENTRES THE DEMANDS FORMULATED. Received 15, 0.15 p.m. London, June 15. Mr. Havelock Wilson, M.P., addressed six thousand seamen in the East End of London. Resolutions in favor of the strike were enthusiastically carried. Th<> strike was similarly proclaimed in Bristol, Hull, Sunderland, Manchester, Cardiff and Shields, the strikers demanding the establishment of a conciliation board, and a minimum wage as follows: £5 10s per month on cargo boats, and £0 on mail boats; also overtime at the rate of ninepence an hour until midnight, and a shilling an hour until six in the morning.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 329, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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153GREAT SEAMAN'S STRIKE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 329, 16 June 1911, Page 5
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