The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-10-22
issued: 1912-06-11
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note: sv EIGHT PAGES 50 CENTS A MONTH mssf% IADS IT A WORD __}VtB_\ VOL. 11 NELSON. B. C. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 11.1912 J. 48 NATIONAL STRIKE i Three Hundred Thousand Transport Workers Affected fEVERY PORT IN KINGDOM NOTIFIED j Would Tie Up Shipping In- definitely—Will Men Obey Order (By Dally News Leased Wire.) LONDON, June 10—Three hundred ;| thousand transport workers in this is- | land will give up their jobs and all I foreign and coastwise shipping will be J tlsd up indefinitely, if tho union men I obey tho orders of the general council j of tho Transport Workers' Federation \ which tonight sent telegrams to every I, port in England, Scotland and Wales, ' calling for a national strike. Compromise Rejected The ship owners today decided to reject! a -ojompromise, the terms of which the government hus been attempting to arrange. The principal points of tho government's proposals were a general organization of the employers to treat with the unions and money guarantees by both sides as Insurance against violations of agreements. The employers maintain that their Interests are so diverse that any organization embracing all would be impossible; Ihey consider the cabinet's proposals particularly the financial feature, Impracticable and set their faces strongly against giving n labor monopoly to the unions. When tho federation council learned of tho employers' decision it sent the telegrams hroadciiBt, signed by Robert A. Williams, secretary, and Harry Gosling. chairman,1 reading: "Tho cm ployers point plank refuse to accept the proposals for a*settlement. The naif. Llonal executive recommends a'general stoppage at once.' ■ Not at Newcastle the county has not been thrown Into a panic by the calamity which threatens because there Is a general hop- that comparatively few of the men will respond to tho lenders' manifesto. Notes of disaffection are reported in several cities. At Newcastle one of the most Important ports, Peter Miller, leader of the northeast coast unions, said t…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0384743
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text