The Maritime Strike

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 7, 3 July 1911, Page 5

The Maritime Strike

SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS. RIOTING AT HULL. LAYING UP HALF BRITAIN'S BOATS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. London, June 30. Fifteen thousand men are idle at Hull owing tt> the strike. Two squadrons of Scots Guards at York are ready to proceed to Hull. The dockers at Liverpool ignored their leaders' appeal to accept the settlement, and started a fresh revolt. Unionist dockers on the Thames have ■truck for a uniform wage. The nonunion dockers in the Surrey and Commercial docks have struck. Five hundred of the London metropolitan police have been sent to Hull, where rioting continued till two in the morning. Several constables and a score of civilians were injured. The mounted police charged and dispersed the mobs. The police at Manchester are being reinforced in the vicinity of the docks.

Three thousand new members of the Dockers' Union have been enrolled at Liverpool.

The employees of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at the North Bocks. decline to handle goods landed by blackleg labor. The Suevic's apples have not been discharged, and it is probable the Papanui will also not be discharged. There were outbreaks of fire in four places on the Arabic. Incendiarism is suspected. The Shipping Federation is arranging to lay up temporarily half the shipping tonnage of the Kingdom. ( The joint strike committee at Liverpool lias issued a list of 24 firms who have agreed to a satisfactory settlement, but 2000 dockers still revolt against the mere recognition of the union, and insist on a guarantee of union wages. ON THE CONTINENT. Antwerp, June 30. The Shippers' Union has agreed to pay the wages current at Hamburg and other competing Continental ports. The Hague, June 30. Dockers at Amsterdam are molesting non-union mm and their wives and chil■dren, breaking ship-chandlers', windows and maltreating their employees.. Twenty Chinese stokers have arrived to sign on Nederland liners. HOULDER LINE CONCESSION. NEGOTIATIONS AT HULL. j Received 2y 5.5 p.m. London, July 1. The Houlder Line has agreed to the men's terms on all their ships. Mr. G. R. Askwith has left Hull, and negotiations have been broken off through the seamen's representatives seeking to persuade the men to agree to amend their claims, enabling the re-open- ( ing of negotiations. The seamen aTe determined to snpport < the dockers' demands. SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT. CONFERENCE FORECASTED. Received 3, 1.25 a.m. London, July 2. There is a fresh outbreak of fire on the Arabic. There is also an outbreak on the steamer Canada. The tug boatmen struck, thus affecting the handling of 23 steamers, including the Lusitania. They declared they were not dissatisfied, but were intimidated by the strikers. Subsequently a settlement was reached. All the Liverpool firms engaged in the coasting trade, including dockers and leaders, are convinced that the whole strike will be settled to-morrow. It is officially announced that the Cunard, the White Star and other lines, including Harrison's, will recognise the docker unionists and attend the conference within a month, for the settlement of wages and conditions of labor.