STRIKE IN BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 54, 22 July 1912, Page 5

STRIKE IN BRITAIN.

: STRIKERS' MANIFESTO. "A GANG OF THIEVES." By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, July 1!). The Strike Committee, in a manifesto, Ba.s that the employers have flagrantly l>roken agreements. Ft estimates that nearly half a million has been pilfered from the men's wages. Over sixty per cent, of the transport workers earned less than a pound weekly. The strike funds are depleted, and 400,000 are starving. The manifesto urgently appeals for assistance.

Ben Tillett, in supporting the manifesto. called the Government to force Lord Devonport and his gang of thieves from power. If anybody deserved to be killed it was that gang who were railing under the security of the bayonets of the soldi.*rs and the bludgeons of the police, which were maddening the men. He added that he would deem it a righteous act to rob the Bank of England for the men's benefit.

Lord Devonport justifies the refusal to agree to let the men resume on the same conditions as prior to the strike, because the concession granted in August has been abused and ins enabled the leaders to enforce the Federation ticket on men applying for work. The employera now demand that they resume on the condition- in force prior to August. Six Sunderland shipyards are idle owing to the men having rejected the new insurance rule 9. STARVING TRANSPORTERS. Received 21, 5.3 p.m. London, July 21. The Strike Committee has appealed to the coopers to help starving transporters' families.