THE MARITIME STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 5, 30 June 1911, Page 5

THE MARITIME STRIKE.

SHIPPING PARALYSED. OWNERS CONCEDING DEMANDS. By C*Ue—Piv«a Assoeiatioß—Copyright. London, June 28, Four thousand National Union dock : laborers at Liverpool have struck to , secure recognition of the union, and - as a protest against the employment of non-unionists. All the crews in I , port thereupon abandoned their vessels'. In the aggregate 0000 dockers and sea- , farers are idle, and shipping is completely paralysed. Three thousand dockers and 1000 sea- | men at Manchester, and 700 handling timber at Hartlepool, have struck. Tlicrc is a groat accumulation of fish, butter and eggs at Hull, and fiourmillcrs are short of grain. | The Allen, Nelson and Pacific shipf'itjig lines at Liverpool have conceded all the strikers.' demands, including those of the dockers. The Board of Trade will intervene at • Hull. A conference of shipowners in i London was in favor of an increase in wages, but declined to recognise the seamen's unions. SHIP-OWNERS RELAXING. WORKERS' THREAT. Received 29, 10 p.m. London, June 29. A conference of a hundred shipowners of the United Kingdom has- decided that a moderate increase of wages might be given at certain ports, in view of the present trade conditions, and recommended the Shipowners' Association to fix a standard of wages for the respective districts, and advise the Shipping J Federation to extend its functions to cover wages disputes. It was unanimously decided to oppose recognition of the sailors' and firemen's unions. The National Transport Workers' Federation Conference resolved to adopt a drastic action against shipping firms unless the strike terminates on Saturday. TRADE PARALYSED. POLICE CHARGE RIOTERS. Received 30, 12.10 a.m. London, June 29. The districts around Hull are suffering from scarcity of supplies, and prices are rising. Two hundred thousand quarters of grain cannot be unloaded. Most of the grain warehouses in the North of England are empty. The oil mills are on the verge of stoppage. Work is stopped at several of the collieries, and the situation is threatening. At Hull the whole working population i is involved. Detachments of Sheffield and Birmingham police have been draft- ■ ed to Hull. They charged with truncheons one section of a mob of 10,000 peri ambulating the city, calling on the millhands to cease work and so help to para- ,' lyse the trade of the port. • A number of creosote works and tim- ; ' her mills have been forced to stop.