STRIKE IN BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 58, 26 July 1912, Page 5

STRIKE IN BRITAIN.

MAD TILLETT. " HE SHALL DIE." .•y Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, July 24. Ben Tillett, in a speech at Tower Hilll. called on the strikers to join his prayer to God to strike Lord Devonport dead. The majority repeated 'his words, which were followed by singing "He shall died."

Fifty strikers rushed the London docks before the gates could be closed. They attacked wharves and set fire to a waggon load of fibre. The police outside charged the mob of two thousand, who attempted to enter and assail non-union-ists. Twenty-five rioters had afterwards to be treated at the hospital for wounds. Mr. Havelock Wilson is endeavoring to procure a general strike of the transport workers in the provinces. LORD DEVONPORT VILIFIED. FURTHER DOCK RIOTS. Received 25, 10.25 p.m. London, July 25. Mr. O'Grady, a Labor member, speaking in the House of Commons, described Lord Devonport as the worst type of criminal he ever came in contact with. Lord Devonport's house is being guarded. The Strike Committee is considering a national stoppage. There is an extension of the strike at Hull. The dockers will take a ballot on the question of a national stoppage. After a Tower Hill .meeting 2000 dockers followed an orator and marched to the docks in two sections. One section upset and plundered two bread vans and commandeered a van loaded with foodstuffs. The second section set two carts afire. One contained cocoanut fibre and the other wool. A severe fight ensued. The men attempted to enter the Katherin Dock wool warehouses, but eventually the police, with reinforcements, commanded the situation.