DOCKERS' STRIKE
GAELS NEWS
(United Press Association— By fflectrJ4 Telegraph—Copyright.)
TRANSPORT WORKERS ARMING
RIOTERS SENT TO GAOL.
(Received July 16, 9.5*) ;a.m.)
LONDON, July 15
Owing to the attack on the Tilbury railway, troops are guarding .the line. Captain Tupper, of the Sailors' and Firemen's Union, asserts that the transport workers are incensed at ■non-unioniste carrying firearms, and i are now selling remnants of furniture •to purchase weapons. Twelve t'housand .Liverpool dockers, have struck as a .protest against the inauguration of a clearing-louse scheme to facilitate the collection of insurance contributions. TvTatiy women and children wore trampled on in Hyde Park during ri stampede following on baton charges hy the police, and were treated in ( hastily unprovided hospital camps. ; iMr .George Lanisbury, Labour M.P., was .roughly handled. ■Several rioters have been sentenced ; to various terms of imprisonment up | to two .months.
LEADERS GtVEN FREE HAND,
TO PKOOEEOB .WITH NEGOTIATIONS. (Received' Last Night, 10.55 o'clock.) UONiDOiN, July 16.
The Strike Committee is waiving its demand for the reinstatement cf those whose places have heen filled. The Committee has given Mcssrr--and Orbell a free hand to .proceed 'with t-ue negotiations with Lord Devon port.
Negotiations are being resumed today.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10670, 17 July 1912, Page 5
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197DOCKERS' STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10670, 17 July 1912, Page 5
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