THE DOCK STRIKE
CABLE- NEWS
(United Prett Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
ATTACK ON NON-UNIONISTS SEVEN MEN WOUNDED. (Received August 1, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON., August 1. Tho re-engaged strikers at the Victoria Dock attacked two thousand non-unionists.
Bricks, stones, bludgeons, and knives were freely used. Several non-unionists produced revolvers, and at least sixty shots were fired.
Seven men were wounded, and twenty were removed to the hospitals.
Similar outbreaks occurred at the Royal Albert and West India Dooks.
Apparently the attacks were organised to clear out the free labour/ particularly these on permanent imployment.
Mounted police charged the mob, and many arrests were made. Five thousand lightermen, on the advice of Mr Harry Gosling, President of the Transport Workers' Federation) have decided to resume work.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10684, 2 August 1912, Page 5
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124THE DOCK STRIKE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10684, 2 August 1912, Page 5
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