STRIKE IN BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 63, 1 August 1912, Page 5

STRIKE IN BRITAIN.

EAGER F<lit WORK. By Cable—Pre ss Association —Copyright. London, July 30. There is a rush of strikers at the flocks to secure employment. More applied than could be < ngaged, and many bitl < rIV complained against the union. Some of the dockers n -ented being reacquired to give an undertaking not to demand the production of union tickets from other workmen. There have been disorders at the Royal Albert and Victoria dock 9, where the strikers, after being re-engaged, chased the free laborers. Many received black eves.

THE STRIKE COMMITTEE. WORK RESUMING. London. July 30. The Strike Committee sat foi three hours, reaffirmed Saturday's decision, and ordered the resumption of work under the old conditions. Where those are unobtainable the men will "remain out, the committee in such cases to deal with individual firms singly. The committee foresee the poy-ibility of a prolonged guerilla struggle.

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald and other Labor members attended the committee after the decision had been reached, and concurred in the course taken.

Two thousand bargemen on the lower Thames and Med way have resumed work. The sailors and firemen, at meetings at Tower Hill, Poplar and Canning Town, resolved to resume work by oTerwhelming majorities.

The Birkenhead strike has rendered idle thousands of ironworker} on the Manchester Ship Canal. Received 31. 0.25 p.m. London. July 31. The strike leaders anticipate that the difficulty in finding work will largely disappear in a few days, as free laborers arc being gradually discharged. Ben Tillett, addressing the Strike Committee, said that many men had resumed at the old rates and under the old conditions. Some employers are endeavoring to impose a 10 per cent, increase in the heurs and a 25 per cent, reduction in wages.

Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, a member of the Royal Commission on the Indian public service, of which Lord Islington is chairman, says that the appointment will not affect the chairmanship of the Labor Party. Ilarland and Wolff's men are promising to exert their influence to prevent disturbances. mainly by disorderly youth'. The shipwrights and drillers have been reinstated, and other departments will •tart again as soon as possible. MERCHANDISE RUINED. REWARDS FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE. Received 31, 11 p.m. London, July 31. The quays and wharves are in a deplorable condition. Tons of merchandise have been spoilt, largely by the weather, and bales of wool damaged.

The .Strike Committee will award medals to those faithful in the struggle. Tlip Government has instructed Mr. Askwith to proceed to Canada to enquire into the working of the Industrial Disputes Act.