DOCK STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 1 August 1912, Page 5

DOCK STRIKE

DECISION TO RESUME AFFIRMED

LONG STRUGGLE FORESHADOWED.

(Received .July 31,9.10 a.m.)

LONDON,3Oth July. The Strike Committee sat for three hours, and reaffirmed Saturday's decision ordering the resumption of work under the old conditions. Where those conditions are not obtainable the men will remain out. The Committee in such cases will deal with the individual firms only. The Committee foresees the possibility of a prolonged guerilla struggle.

Mr Ramsay MacDonaid and other Laibor members of the House of Commons attended the committee .meeting after the decision was come to, and concurred in the course taken.

Two thousand barmen on the Lower Thames and M'edway have resumed.

Meetings of sailors and firemen held at Tower Hill, Poplar, and Canningtown, overwhelmingly resolved to resume work.

RESUMING ON OLD CONDITIONS. DIFFICULTY IN FINDING WORK (Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.) LONDON, July 31. The strike leaders anticipate that the difficulty in finding work for the men will largely disappear in a few days, as free labourers are being gradually discharged. Mr Ben Tillett, addressing the Strike Comimittee, said that many of tho men had resumed on the old rates and conditions. Some of the employers were endeavouring to impose a ten per cent, increase in working hours, and a twenty-five per cent, reduction in wages.