STRIKE IN BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 323, 12 July 1912, Page 5

STRIKE IN BRITAIN.

NOX-UXIOXISTS ATTACKED. A SERIOUS RIOT. By Cable. —Pre«s Association—Copyright. London, July 10. At the entrance to the Surrey Commercial Dock 1000 strikers, armed with knives, bottles and stones, awaited 200 non-unionists at the luncheon hour. They rushed the public-houses where the non-unionists lunched, and attempted to wreck one; whereupon the landlord fired a revolver and kept the mob back until the non-unionists escaped through the back windows. A number were taken to the hospital suffering from shot wounds. A great crowd collected, but mounted police by baton charges restored order. AX EPISCOPAL MAXIFESTO. OBDURATE EMPLOYERS. Received 11, 11.20 p.m. London, July 11. The Bishops of London. St. Albans and Southwark, in a manifesto, declare, that the dock strike is a national calamity and a reproach to common Christianity. The masters had promised to listen to the men's grievances, and this must involve some consultation with the men. Arbitration ought to be able to bring the parties together. «, The Marquis of Tullibavdine, at the> Strike Committee's instance, has conveyed a message to Lord Devonport that the men are willing to resume work on certain conditions. Lord Devonport refused to accept the message, which of- , fered to lcsume work provided a month hence the employers met *oine of the men's representatives.