Work at a St: Police to be Employed to Protect Willing Operatives London, Mar. 31.
A mass-mooting of the building! parative at, the British Empire hibition to-day declared unofficial lightning strike to on-fore a claim for an increase of 2d. an hour, Seven thousand men are involved.—Rewter.
London, Apr. 1.
'Work on the Empire Exhifiition in almas'. paralyzed. by. the strike of building operatives, who ae] marching round the grounds stopping everything.
During their march through Wembley around the rs met swith opposition in the Burma tion, but eventually forced the] workers to down tools by atoncthrowing.
The strikers threat to pull girl art-wu dents from. the seat: folding uniers they ceased work. The girls finally consented to cease work, although. they prosewe that they were in no way connect with the strike, The authorities of the British Empire Exhibition anticipate that! many of the strikers who are tdlo through intimidation will resum to-morrow, when 500 police" will be drafted to Wembley to protret the willing workers.
On the adjournment of the House of Commons Sir Phill Sassoon (Conservative) deplore the strike at Wembley. Ho said that, he had learned that it would inevitably delay the opening and severely condemned the action of the strikers, which, ho declared, was an_ insult' to the Empire.
Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Colonial] Secretary, strongly ' contradicted the statement that the Exhibition would not open to time.
Police Now in Control, Apr.
A strong foran of mounted and unmounted police have matters Noll in hand-t the Empire Ixhibition. They forcibly ejected the chairman of a modting which the strikers attempted to hold inside the grounds, Artists and others who yesterday. were intimidated entered unmolested this morning, but. the activities generally ro} still paralysed. The strike is entirely unofficial. The trade unions arg nob participating.—Router. London, Apr. 2 Te is estimated that 50 por cent. of the men are now back at work at Wembley.
Apr. 3.
Mr. Murray, the London organizor of -the' Building Trades! Federation, has advised the Wembley sinkers to resume work immediately. He pointed out that, continuance of the strike would prejudice the pending negotia event failure trent of failure of the naqote: tions there would be a, national strike on May 1.—Reuter, without permission.
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