LABOUR TROUBLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10649, 4 June 1912, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association —By HOleo ti ic Telegraph —Copyright.)

THE OOCKbKS' STRIKE POLICE INSPECTOR STABBED. A DOZEN ARRESTS. (Received Juno 3, 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. The head of the dock at Bermondsey during tho night remonstrated with disorderly strikers, who knocked a policeman insensible. A free light ensued betAvoe.n the; police and 500 strikers, during w'hich Inspector Mann was stabbed in the arm. A dozen arrests Avo.ro made.

DECISION OF TRANSPORT WORKERS' EXECUTIVE.

LONDON, June 2. The executive of the Transport Workers' Federation has decided, instead of calling a national strike, to ■advise tho acceptance of the Government's proposal to set up a joint board if the masters Avill do .likewise, Mr James O'Grady, Labour M.P. for East Leeds, addressing a gathering at ToAver Hill, complained of the Government's impotence in not enforcing tho five points on Avhic.lt Sir EdAvard Clarke reported in the men's favour. SHIPPING HELD UP. LONDON, June 2. The steamship service between: St. Petersburg and London is suspended, oind sailings from Southampton to Ecuth Africa are curtailed. TiTe shipoAvners' losses are estimated at £300,000 a Aveek. London shipoAA-.ners, including the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Sha.iv, Savill and Albion Company, announce that qualified men unre required at current port rates, with a guaranteed minimum of 40s per week and one Aveek's holiday on pay annually ; the engagement to be terminable on one month's notice by either side. Applicants must undertake not to ask other men to produce union tickets.

THE LEADER'S OPINIONS. , GOOD BEHAVIOUR AN INDICATION OF WEAKNESS. WEALTH TO THE WEALTHMAKERS. (Received Last Night 8.45 o'clock.) LONDON, June 3. A meeting of 30,000 persons was held at Tower Hill. Mr Ruark, of the. Stevedores' Union, presided, and said~that t'he leaders were not going to preach good behaviour any longer, as it had been taken as an indication of weakness. He recalled wluait Sir Reginald McKenma had -said, that food must be brought to London. He advised the men to go hungry. Mr Gosling urged the strikers to be more enthusiastic. There Avas plenty of work, 'lie said, in keeping the blacklegs from the docks. j

Mr Bon Tillet said that the employers of the port were robbing 40,000 mon o£ a shilling per day. Th'e strikers were starting a mighty unrest which would continue until the wealth of the-world'belonged to the wealth makers. ■

Mr Torrey, Chairman of the Atlantic Transport Company, said that the refusal to meet the nve,n was due to the facts that the masters were not prepared to sit in the same room with some of the men's leaders. This did not apply to Mr Gosling.

THE LATEST NEWS

TROUBLE OVER STRIKE PAY

THE STRIKE SPREADING

(Received Last Night, 11.10 o'clock.) LONDON, June 3. There are 3200 men .now working at the docks, being twelve hundred above the number working on Friday. The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers have secured GOO men to work the steamers Otway, AVaimana, Rangatina, and Turakina. They were conveyed by special trains to the Victoria docks. The brokers at Covenfc Garden have commenced enrolling 1000 men for the purpose of unloading fruit and vegetables. They are paying a shilling per hour. The Strike Committee announces that it has received a New Zealuna cablegram stating that the loading o? a meat ship !has been blocked. Tho members of the National Sailors and Fiijemcn's Union have received 21s strike pay. The stevedores are angry at receiving nothing, aind declare that the*.leaders have., grossly misled them. Twenty-six thousand dockers are also unpaid, but Mr Ben Tillett promises them something on Tuesday or Wednesday. The dockers' strike fund aggregates £38,000, 'and the sailors' and seamen's fund £36,000.