THE HOME STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10646, 30 May 1912, Page 5

THE HOME STRIKE

CABLE NEWS

(United Tress Association — By "Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

DEPUTATION TO SIR R. McKENNA PAUSES OF THE TROUBLE. (Received Last Night, 10.20 o'clock.) LONDON, May 23. A fruit importer's private deputation, waited upon fc*r Beginald Kenna a.nd asked what protects he would give if they provided men to discharge cargoes. . Sir McKenna said that jjhero was plenty of polioo protection, llrat no free labour. The meat importers wore, ho .aid, offering ±1 per da y and only seemed two hundred workers. He could not give military protection or allow the military to unload vessefe. He asked Mr F. W. Moore .why the Argyllshire, Ostertey, ! and other vessels were not transferred to another port. Mr Moore explained that the owners declined, fearing that the strike would spread, and he added that if the strike continued) far a fortnight or three weeks, larriviug soft fruit would Spoil. Sir-"Reginald McKcnna was sympathetic, land expressed -tihe hope that an agreement would be arrived at shortly. . Mr; Gtarke said that he found that the- grievous Thomas ease was based on a .misapprehension. This very exceptional case should, he thought,.come under clause 5 of the August agreement, whidh had been discussed by the representatives df the ma site re ia l ad men, and in the event r!f a disvftgreement had been arbitrated by the Bbard of Trade. The same rule, ho* said, applied to an. alleged breach of clause 23 of the August agreement, ibatween short-sea traders and the national Transport Federation. The roaster lightermen had peremptorily refused to dismiss an amalgamated Tvatermen'ts and lightermen's increase. One of the important causes of the present dispute, moreover, was jthat;sailing barge-ownens failed to ex-, pliiin their refusal to pay the rates agreed'upon on Ist January. Similarly, the wharfingers were blamed for not- accepting the case governing all oversea iships., viz., Lord Alverstone's ruling of 27th November, enforcing, under given conditions, ~ord ißollit's award for a higher rate of August sfh. He added that the refusal of BioseU, a master carman, to pay the rates agreed upon had oreatad .much difficulty in view of the .statutory obligations of the port of London authority, but beyond asking the Port authority to decline to load his vans, ilie Federation was quiescent until other .disputes arose finally concerning the vexatious interference with Trades Unionists. Mv Clarke mentions that the noncompliance df flhe workers of the Fedoration with tihe rule concerning a conference and an appeal to the Board cf Trade.