SHIPPING STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 4 July 1911, Page 5

SHIPPING STRIKE

THE SITUATION UNCHANGED. INCREASED PRICES OF GOODS. (Received Last Night, 9.40 o'clock.) LONDON, July 3. The Strike Committee at Liverpool has promised that if the recalcitrant deckel's will resume whenever the Union is recognised, they will support : them in their attempt to obtain Union rates, unless these are conceded before the end of the month. The recalcitrants, however, are unwilling to obey. A steward of the Canada has been arrested in connection with the fires. Owing to the ..strike, the Carmama and the Empress of Britain, aboard which are Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Canadian contingent, are unable to sail. The liner St. Louis picked up their mails at Queenstown. Flour at Hull, which was lately selling at Is 6d to now 2s 2d per stone. The butter supply is about exhausted. Sugar has risen £d per lb. The railway men have resolved to strike if asked to deal with the transit of goods handled by blacklegs. A sectional meeting of strikers at Hull resolved to resume if the employ'ers, besides their recent offer, augmented all the dockers' wages and met the representatives of all sections to discuss the settlement of the grievance-. Mr G. R. Askwith has been invited I to rc-opon the conference.