THE STRIKE IN BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 304, 20 June 1912, Page 5

THE STRIKE IN BRITAIN

VESSELS HELD UP. " By Gable —Press Association —Copyright. London, June 18. The Strike Committee states that machinery has been put into operation to "block all vessels diverted to Continental or Home ports. Several Atlantic liners are delayed at Southampton, where two hundred extra police have arrived with outside labor, also imported. Owing to the strike the departure of the Waimana, Rangitara and' Norseman has >3en postponed indefinitely. They carry 2600 immigrants to New South Wales, and 500 to Victoria.

THE EPICUREAN TILLET. BUY "FIZZ" OR "PINCH" IT. • Received 19, 9.20 p.m. London, June 19. Ben Tillett was recognised in a restaurant .drinking champagne, and was hissed. Justifying the incident at a Tower Hill meeting, he said: "A Tich lady asked me to dine, and promised to feed a. thousand of our little children. I should never drink anything except champagne if I could get it; nor should you." A voice from the crowd: How can we ? Mr. Tillett: Pinch it. FLOUR REDUCED. Received 20, 12.25 a.m. London, June 19. In view of increased work at the docks, millers have reduced 'flour by 3s to 325. The Port Authority are employing 10,270 laborers oil 117 ships. The experiment of working barges with unlicensed men is satisfactory. A hundred thousand children at the East End are daily receiving free meals.