THE STRIKE IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 291, 5 June 1912, Page 5

THE STRIKE IN BRITAIN

THE LABOR MARKET. % Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, June 3. The Port of London Authority has engaged 5500 dockers, of whom two thousand will be retained on the permanent •t&ff.

Moore and Co. have engaged free laborers to discharge the Osterley's apples, which are' arriving at the markets in fair quantity. The Palma and Mongolia are also unloading.

Auctions at Covent Garden market have been resumed.

A dock manager describes the men as stampeding back to work. One company (ranted 280 men, and received 1500 applications.

RESUMING WORK. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S ATTITUDE. Received 4, 11.40 p.m. London, June 4. The employers of the Port of London attended at the Home Office, but the interview was resultless.

It is reported that Mr. Lloyd George irritated the employers by criticising their reply to the Government's proposed federation of employers. His expressions were afterwards withdrawn.

Six thousand men are working at tha locks.

The New Zealand Shipping Company has' engaged all the men it can find work lor, including many strikers. Thirty thousand carcases of meat were unloaded from the Otaki, Waimana, Rangatira and Turakina, and placed in the cold storage docks. The Port Authority has easily replaced the builders who struck. The absence of lightermen remains the main difficulty, since they cannot be replaced owing to Royal charters.

In connection with the refusal of the tort of London Authority to allow the ■teamer Lady Jocelvn to have free laborers aboard and enter the Albert Docks the Shipping Federation is considering making" an application for a mandamus to compel the Authority to admit the Lady Jocelyn. Twenty-six thousand dockers and 8000 •tevedores will receive 10s strike pay on Wednesday. Owing to the strike the London millers have advanced the price of flour by 2s, making it 35s a .sack. Sir William Nelson, chairman of the Nelson Steamship Company, interviewed, •trongly criticised the proposed conciliation board. He said that he would transfer his steamers to another port ii »uch an outside authority was arranged.