Evening star., 1949-07-22
London Dockers
Vote 10 Return
To Jobs Monday
End Put to WuIkout
Thot Crippled Port
For Post Is Days
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Port of London for Is days voted
today to return to their jobs
Monday.
The vote came at a huge mass
in Victoria Park, where
the committee leading the walk
out recommended that the men
call it off.
A member of the Strike Com
mittee told the men of the de-
cision.
$4,000 Dockers Idle Now.
An average of $4,000 dock work.
ers have been on strike since the
stoppage began June 27 in SYM
pathy with the striking Canadian
Seamen's Union. BY the time the
strikers get back to work Monday
they will have lost about &400, 900
(S1 100000 in wages. AS the de-
ciSion to return to work was made,
some $4,000 dockers were idle.
The stoppage, tied up vital
British export cargoes. hamper
ing Britain's drive to overcome
her severe dollar crisis. Troops,
concentrating on unloading food
ships, have prevented any severe
shortages in British food supplies.
In the House of Commons La
Dor Minister George Isaacs was
asked if the government now
would call off the state of emer-
gency the government had pro-
claimed because of the strike. He
replied the cabinet really must
wait until Monday. until we see
what has been the effect of to-
days decision" by the workers.
Unions in Jurisdiction Fight.
The strike began when the Ca
madam Seamen's Union black
listed two Canadian ships, the
Argomont and the Beaverbrae, in
London. The CSU dispute with
the Canadian shipowners has
grown into jurisdictional battle
between the CSU and it's rival, the
International Seafarers Union,
which has manned some ships on
which the CSU had called strikes.
The dockers' decision to end
their stoppage was reached after
consultation with an official OF
the CSU, which a walkout CON-
mittee member said hao agreed to
clear the two blacklisted Canadi-
an ships.
At one point the strikers in
sisted they were victims of a lock-
out by the Labor government be-
cause of the governments in
sistence that they work the two
blacklisted ships. The govern
ment denied it was lockout.
There had been signs earlier
that the strike-denounced by
the Labor government as Com
munist-inspired-was breaking up
One group of workers had voted
to remove a cargo of wheat from
one of the Canadian ships. An
other group of 1000 strikers yes
terday adopted resolution ex-
pressing willingness to return to
work if the main body of strikers
voted to do SO.
The government, which is oper-
ating the seized docks under a
state of national emergency
meanwhile sent an additional 600
troops to handle cargoes today
That raised the total to 1897
servicemen at work.
3 to Be Deported.
Home Secretary James Chuter
EIDE announced in Commons this
morning that two Americans and
a Dutchman who arrived in Lon
don by plane last night in con-
nection with the strike would be
deported for the public good.'
He identified the Americans as
Louis Goldblatt and John Malet-
ia. He added that ''after satis-
flying myself their visit here was
concerned with the dispute at the
London docks, I decided it was
conducive to the public good they
should be deported."
Mr.. EIDE said the men, who came
here from France, had been
picked up by police shortly after
midnight.
The Communist dominated
World Federation of Trade Unions
recently held a dockers and sea-
mems conference at Marseille.
Ammon Custer Demanded.
Before accepting the back-to-
work resolution the dockers passed
one demanding that 76-year-old
Lord Ammon be dismissed as
chairman of the National Dock
Labor Board.
Prime Minister Attlee fired Am
mon as deputy speaker of the
House of Lords last night in q
clash over board policy in handling
the strike.
The board had told the strikers
they were jeopardizing the entire
dock labor scheme, which guaran-
tees them weekly income. The
cabinet repudiated that statement.
Ammon has more than a year
to serve on his appointment as
chairman Of the Dock Board.
Technically there Is no way the
government can remove him until
his term is up.
Hard Luck Champion
ZION, ILL.,. July % (P.-Glenn
Taylor. 8. believes he is the hard