The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-03 00:00:00

MINORITY-NOES 69.

Ball, Edward Gower, F. L. Phillimore, Rob. J.
Bell, James Graham. Lord M.W. Phinn, T.
Blackett, J. F. Greene, J. Pilkington, J.
Booker, T. W. Hadfield, G. Pollard-Urquhart, W
Booth, Sir R. Hall, Sir Benjamin Potter, R.
Bower, G. Hamilton, Geo. A. Seymour, H. D
Bright, John Heywood, James Smith, John Abel
Bruce, H. A. Hume, J. Smith, John Benj.
Burrell, Sir C..M. Hutt, William Spooner, R.
Butt, Isaac Ingham, Robert Sullivan, M.
Chandos, Marquis of Jolliffe, Sir W. G.H. Tancred, Henry Win.
Cheetham, John Jones, David Taylor, Col.
Cholmondeley, Ld. H Kershaw, James Thompson, George
Cobtold, J. C. Lee, W, Thornhill, W.
Cobden, Richard Liddell, H. G. Waddington, H. S.
Collier, Robert P. Lucas, F. Walmsley, Sir J.
Craufurd, E. H. J Macartney, G. Whitmore, H.
Crossley, F. Maguire, John F. Wilcox, B.
Disraeli, Benjamin Matins, R. Wise, A.
Esmonde, John Milligan, R. Yorke, Eliot T.
Feilden, M. J. Morris, D.
Ferguson, Joseph Murrough, J. P.
Fox, R. Norreys, fir D. J.
Fox, W. J. Peellell, Sir G, B.
irewen, Charles Hay Pellatt, Apsley

ITLLERS.

Seymour, W. D.
Phiillmore, J. G .

STRIKE OF THE DOCK LABOURERS.

The strike of the extra, labourers employed by the Lon
don Dock Company for extra pay is likely to be followed
by the labourers of the East and West India Dock Com-
pany, the St. Katharine's Dock Company, and others, and
to be attended with the most serious results. The la—
bourers in one department of the London Dock struck on
Monday morninc, for an increase of wages from 2s. 6d. to
3s. per day, and 6d. per hour for over-time, and great ex-
citement was created by this step. The labourers on strike
loitered about the gates all day, but were generally
quiet until the eVening, when some of those who had
been at work in the docl; at the usual wages, were way-
laid a short distance from the dock, knocked down, and
dragged through the kennel. The row was becoming,
general, when the police and dock officers interfered, and
dispersed the malcontents. The directors yesterday
adopted the most efficient measures for the protection of
the men, and about 500 policemen are kept in reserve in
the neighbourhood. The foremen and permanent la-
bourers proceeded to their work without being interfered
with, but when the time arrived for the extra labourers,
about 500 in number, beinc? "taken on" at the principal
entrance, a large body made known their wishes by shout-
ing as loud as they were able, "Three shillings per day,
an.l sixpence an hour overtime." A day's work in the
dock, for which 2s. 6d. has hitherto been paid, is from
Bin the morning till 4in the afternoon. Sometimes the
" casuals " and " extras " are only employed four or six
hours, and they are then paid 4d. per hour. The demands
of the men were not complied with, and they formed •
themselves into groups near the dock gates, and inti-
mated that those who laboured for the old prices must
look out at night. Many of the labourers disposed to
work at the old prices slipped into the dock in the course
of the morning, and in spite of the threats held out to
them in the streets, proceeded with their labour.
About the middle of the day the labourers on the jetty .
in the basin where the Australian and East India ships
are moored sent in a memorial for an increase of pay, •
which not being complied with, they also struck work. .
A few minutes before eleven, about 200 labourers, prin-
cipally from the tea warehouses, marched in procession
from the dock gates to the Cutler-street warehouses of
the St.. Katharine Dock Company, in Ilostndsditch,
calling on their way at the St. Katharine Dock and
Nicholson's Wharf, and shouting, " Three shillings pow
day, and sixpence over hours," but no one joined them.
A. similar cry was raised at the warehouses in Cutler-
street, but was not responded to.
The labourers in the other docks are only waiting t.
result of the strike in the London Dock to demand an
increase of wages, but the directors of the London Dock
Company anticipate a splendid supply of labourers at
the old prices, if they can be preserved from violence.
; The directors of the London Dock Company have
issued a circular complaining of the men having struck
i without notice or application to them, and stating that
' measures have been taken to prevent further intimida-
tion of the men who are still inclined to work, and that
) they will put in force the full powers of the law ageism*
any'persons so interfering with them.