THE STRIKE IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 298, 13 June 1912, Page 5

THE STRIKE IN BRITAIN

GREAT PRIVATION. THE STRIKE SPREADING. By Cable—Press Aseociation—Copyright. London, June 11. The dockers' officials state that the response to the strike order has not been extensive. The attitude of the Port of London Authority is unchanged; 8126 men are working, and a hundred vessels are being unloaded. Some London ships are loading at Grimsby. Great privation prevails amongst the strikers' families in London. Extra police have been provided in the dock districts, where a number of intimidators have had their plans frustrated. Two thousand men have struck at Plymouth, and two thousand at Southampton, and ships are held up at Bristol, Manchester and Sunderland. The Seamen and Firemen's Union is ballotting whether to join the transporters. The result will'be declared on Monday. Thirteen thousand provincial dockers have struck. The Londoners on strike number one hundred and twenty thousand. Owing to the conditions attached to Mr. Mclvenna's offer of a hundred police to protect Iloulder Bros, at Purfleet in Essex, the authorities declined to accept it, and obtained two hundred Birmingham policemen instead. AN IRRESPONSIBLE AGITATOR. London, June 11. The executive of the Dockers' Union, embracing Liverpool, Scotland and Ireland, decided not to strike. A free fight took place at Poplar. The strikebreakers, who are in a majority, resented the action of the pickets and attacked them. Ben Tillett, speaking at Tower Hill, said: "The employers want the Government to turn out the soldiery to shoot you. The Tories are demanding your children's blood. If our men are going to be murdered, I am going to shoot Lord Devonport, who is responsible for the strike."

j THE PROVINCES APATHETIC. \ London, June 11. / Provincial reports show that there is | no enthusiasm for the strike.