LABOUR TROUBLES
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DOCKERS STRIKE BY LLOYD-GEORCE'S CRITICISM ABSENCE OF LIGHTERMEN THE MFIFICULTY. (Received Last Night, 11.40 o'clock.) LONDON, June 4. The employers at the Port of London attended at the Homie Office, but ■without any result. It is reported that the .Right Hon. 'Moyd'r'Ge.orge irritated the employers by ariticising their reply to the Governmte'nt's prqpased (federation, df emiployers. His expressions were afterwards withdrawn.
Six thousand 'men. are working at the cbcikis.
The Nlenv Zealand Shi,ppinfg Company has engaged all the men it can find work for, including many strik'GllS.
Thirty thousand carcases wiere unloaded from the Otaki,, Waimaua, / Raaigitira, and Turakina, and placed ] ia< oold 'storage at the dock-si. I The Port authority easily replaced j the btiilder.s who are striking.
I The absence ,of iligliteiritfen remains j .the diffi'Ou'?ty, since they 7 cannot be replaced owing to Royal Charters. Jin' connection with the refusal ,of the Port of London authority to allow the steamer Lady Jocelyn, with free labourers laboard', to enter the Albert Docks, the Shipping Federation is considering .the making of an application to compel the authority .to admit the Lady Jocelyn. {Dockers numbering .26,000, and 8000 stevedores,, receive 10s strike pay on Wednesday.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10650, 5 June 1912, Page 5
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206LABOUR TROUBLES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10650, 5 June 1912, Page 5
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