THE DOCK STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10655, 10 June 1912, Page 5

THE DOCK STRIKE

CABLE NEWS

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

INTIMIDATfON OF WORKERS.

THE GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME.

(Recci/od Last Night, 5.5 o'olock.)

LONDON, June 8,

There are 7840 workers employed in the London docks on ninety-three ,sh.jps. Several of the vessels bavc loaded cad gone to sea. Serious intimidation prevails, some of the strikers visiting the houses of workers and informing their wives that their husband® will bo killed unless they join the strike. 'J. lie Government scheme for settling the dispute is based on the Brooklands agreement in "regard to the oottion industry. The leaders of the transport workers have resolved that on no consideration will independent arbitration .be atoceipted. Jtf an outside chairman is appointed, he must have no casting vote.

The Trades Union) leaders point out that ttlie proposed guarantee will not ibe the same thing as a liability on the Trades Union general fond. . Tlie employers desire to know if the Government isohemc contemplates the peruCfeflng of the Federation for the acts of a section of its members, and aisk whetheu»raßy.stt3raiatk! strike declared in -LjJjfflßffro lie'/p another port would be ia cdijEravenition of the agreement, i The BnMc .Exchange has patitioned the GoveMpit to despise the lightermen and tofeir charters, which gives a monopoly ti\ the, woi'kinig of 'barges on the Thames, and to open the barges to competonit men, who ana freely offering their .services. The (Right Hon. jla Lloyd-George informed the transport workers that the offer of a guarantee for a breach of agreei!B_3nt' wcnld have mote effect tj&m anything else m •■ bringing public 'opinion on to tlie moni's side.' MessrsHoulder (Bros., in a lettiar to "The Times" in reply to Sir Reginraldi McKenna's statement that man wer? brought to the docks ais strikebreakers remind him that, no Unionist 'would report. They refused to ■ wrvi-k in >Wiie docks under an alVJard allegedly favouring the firm. Therefore non-Uai;ioni'sts were engaged. Subsequently an agreement was .concluded..which Mr Ben Tllfett signed,' permTitt'ing Messirs' Houlder, Bros.' men. to join the "Union. . Thip agreement the' Unions repudiated' thus (compelling the- firm {b regain.-non-Unionists'. The House of Commons ha.? postponed., the- isecond-.reading..of the Osr.* heme-Judgment Bill from Monday, on wlhich day the <Vck strike will be debated. . . '- ______