THE DOCK STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10681, 30 July 1912, Page 5

THE DOCK STRIKE

MANIFESTO REJECTCD

MASS MEETING OF STRIKERS

MEN WILL NOT RESUME* WORK

(Received July 29, 12.30 p.m.)

LONDON, 28th July,

A mass meeting of thousands of dockors unanimously rejected the Strike Committee's manifesto, declaring the strike at an end, and resolved not to resume work without guarantee that the masters will maintain the recent agreements, ft was announced the funds suffice • to feed dependants for three weeks.

CAUSE OF THE COLLAPSE. THE SAILORS AND FIREMEN'. PROTECTION OF STRIKEBREAKERS. (Received Last Night, 9.-5 o'clock.) LONDON, July 29. The Sailors' and Firemen's Unions' firm action was a decisive factor in the Strike Committee's decision to declare the strike at . an end. Mr Havelock Wilson's visit to Hull convinced him that the strike was foredoomed to failure, and he wrote to the Strike Committee denouncing Mr Ben Tillett's prayer, and declining to continue the campaign. He says that some of the employers' assurances are just and generous consideration of the men's grievances, in consultation, the Unions could , have accepted . and he, with Mr Hopkin's support,induced the sailors and firemen to inform the Committee that the strike must end. Various Unions were consulted today regarding the situation. Two thousand strike-breakers at Birkenhead have been accomodated on board ship.

SPEECHES BY LABOUR MEM-

BERS. DISORDERLY MASS MEETING. RESUMPTION NOTICES TORN (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) LONDON, July 20. « Mr Arthur Henderson, Labout member for Durham., concluded a speech by warning the workers of the d/.inger of tho "clknvn tools" policy proving ineffective. Wherever the workers had properly used the opportunity of meeting the employers they had, he said, done mere than was ever gained by a strike. Mr Gosliag, chairman cf the Strike Uommittee, told a mas© meeting that ,the Strike Cfomanittee had been accused of agitation for the. keeping of the strike alive; but he now made it clear that the accusation was untrue. . Many strikers became angry, and 'throughout the meeting thfreatened to overturn the platforms. Subsequently the Committees' notices, ordering a resumption of work, were torn down.