LONDON: A lightning strike by 3,700 British docl(ers and a go-slow campaign by 4,500 riverside tug boatmen today [Sept 17] threatened to bring London and Bristol docl(s to a standstill. Thirty-three ships were held up by midday; six of them bring food to Britain.
The tug boatmen in all London docks said they would go on ‘working to rule’ until they were given, a one pound sterling weekly wage increase. This means they will do no more than stick to official time schedules, and will ban overtime.
Two thousand dockers at London’s Tilbury wharf stopped worl(in protest against a plan to recruit extra workers. At the East India Docl(s in London 200 men came out over a labour allocation plan. [In] Bristol ... 1,500 men walked off Avonmouth Docks to back a demand for extra pay for unloading American carbon blacl( cargoes. They said they needed severalbaths afterhandlingeach shipload.
Hundreds of trucks blocked roads leading to the docl(s when they were unable to unload their goods. Manchester docl(ers have threatened a two-day strike in protest against the suspension of 29 men for refusing overtime worl(. News agencies