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DOCKERS' STRIKE

GABLE NEWS

(Unittd Press Association—By Eketiic Tekgraph—Copyright*)

AFFfeCTING AUSTRALIAN TRADE

POLICE PATROLLING TOOLEY

STREET.

(Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) , LONDON, May 24. | It is feared that the strike of dockera will result in serious damage to j Australian fruit shipments. The steamer .Maloj a has been placed in dry dock, with 500 oases of apples aboard. Only 7000 cases of the DgmostdieadesV butter has been'discharged. T *"-"<*•* ..... The wharf labourers -were lockedout for refusing to discharge apples carted by non-unionists, whereupon clerks and salesmen unloading the vessel.

Mounted police are patrolling Tooley "Street.

Question of "pay aWd hours

(Received May 24, .9 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. - The- ease of the watchman was a pretext to. give them a chance to affirm that the mashad violated.: several points.- in the. existing agreements; The whole question of pay and hours, they-ask, should be revised, including the payment of a minimum wage of 7s 6d to stevedores.

150,000 MEN AFFECTED.

MANY UP

QfiBWfUM DAY AN3> WAfeE D&

Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock.

The transport .workeris' executive 'announce a strike m. conseq'U'ence of tihe boycotting of Unionists, and on account of the - employers deliberately breaking the agreements by •and' vexatious interfeaieawfe with. 'workmen. . ".. - . ,

Mr Gosling states that 150,000 men are affected'. '. , r .:.'...,

The objects of the strike, he said, were the recognition of the Fedieration itiokot, a uniform..rate of gay,, equal ; i and; IJoadoir. " ' lr - "■' >.:.■/■.'■' ''. ; '' ""•''*•'"; Other 'leaders' ;claim"■"' a maximum working day from iseyeto to five o'clock, and a man'muta wage of ~7s 6d.

The Port of London," titfliaritie© have informed the men that they .acec-not abfo to employ only unionists..' " •;, One hundred and 'fifty laden, ships," aggregating a million tans, are held >ujH, iiKjhdmg the Waiwetfa, vvitih 8000 carcases still aboard.

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Bibliographic details
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10643, 25 May 1912, Page 5

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DOCKERS' STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10643, 25 May 1912, Page 5

DOCKERS' STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10643, 25 May 1912, Page 5

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