FIZZLING OUT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10661, 17 June 1912, Page 5

FIZZLING OUT

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LABOURERS REFUSE TO STRIKE

BEN TILLETT'S ACTION CRITICISED. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, June 15-. The strike is fizzling out. The National Labourers' Unions at Cardiff and Penart'h liavo declined to strike. The Secretary of the Seafarers' Ui> ion at Southampton lias informed the London Strike Committee that MiBen Tillett had no right to issue his manifesto without the consent of the affiliated unions. The Bristol dockers' executive has declared the strike '"off." ' Members of the Strike Committee helieve that there is a pcissibility of the Industrial Council effecting . a settlement, but still demand that the whole of the strikers be reinstated. The employers of Bristol are incensed at the breach of contracts, and numerous strikers have not been allowed to resume for the present.

AT LONDON'S DOCKS

TERRORISM IN THE EAST END. (Received June 15, 11.55 a.m) LONDON. June 14. There has been- «■ notable increase in the number of men resuming work at the docks. The London lightejrmen are now the mainstay of the dispute, ■and hut for them conditions would be \ approacbing norma 1. Oho 'hundred and thirty ships are being discharged. The men's leaders report that there are 140,000 men out at all ports.- '" An East End clergyman reports reports that many gangs are terrorising and ill-treating free labourers in their homes. STRIKERS CIVILIAN FORCE. ORGANISER SUMMONED. MANCHESTER DOCKERS RESUME. (Received June 15, 1 p.m.. ; ** 'LONDON, June.l 4. Two thousand "so-oalled strikers civilian police, carrying large cudgels, paraded Tower Hill. Mr Stan,hury, the organiser, has been summoned for drilling men in Southwiark.Park without permission. ..., ■.■<■:,'■ It is understood the Strike Coirinritj tee has approached the Government I with a view to ending the strike. ' [ The Manchester dockers have re- (- sumed work.

"BOUNCE. BUNKUM AND BLUFF!" LONDON STRIKE COMMITTEE. PROGRESS AND PLENTY. NOT PROGRESS AND POVERTY. Received This Morning, 12.35 o'clock. LONDON, June 16. The Secretary of the Seafarqrs Union at Southampton has stated that all the London Strikn Committee's telegrams have been. /'bounce, bunkum, and bluff." The seafarers desired progress and plenty, and not progress and poverty.