DOCKERS' STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10653, 7 June 1912, Page 5

DOCKERS' STRIKE

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

CRiiscasED m m commons QUESTION OF GUARANTEES. •(Received Last Night, 10.20 o'clock!) LONUON, June 6. Mr Jameis o'Grady, Labour member for Leeds, speaking hi the House of Cam<mon,s, sstated ttiat 100,000 strikers and £1,200,000,000 of capital were involved mi the strike, which was' the result d' a policy of pin-pricking. The Right Hon. 1). Lloyd-George said lie declined to discuss the merits of the dispute. He read .a guarantee signed by Messrs Gosling and Anderson, on behalf of the Transport Federation', endorsing tihe principle cif a joint Board, with provision- for monetary guarantees on both sides to ensure tine observance of the agreements. Mr Lloyd .George; added that fop- a v iir,st time. London owners had a substantial guarantee to cany out the bargains. .Tic thought the "men were e'nlti'tlled to ask the lowners for a simi'ia.r guara'mfcoo. He appealed to the raimens to do ij-.heir best immediately •to (form a comprehensive Federation, ■also to control .undercutting among -employees. He urged the workman to resuma mien n while. It was, he .said, impossible tio complete such a Fcdera■ioir in: a day, or even in a'week. iMr Eonar Law., Leader of the Opposition, held that the men's willingness... to give a .pecuniary guarantee'was very important. It was a recog- j jjitica; by the .men'* leaders that the Trades Disputes - Act.-was ruinous to both trade and' the eoTintry, and involved the repeal: of the Act to a large extent. Mr ißamsay McDonald denied that the- giving of a pecuniary guarantee was an. admission that the Act bad (been, a failure. If the Government would guarantee a proper consideration, of the men's grievances,'. they 'would return to -work irmmediately. Mr O'Grady's motion was "with-J drawn. . . ' I