Fund for Dockers Who Refuse to Load Haruna Maru London, Jan. 31.
The Japanese steamer Haruna Maru, which Middlesbrough dockers recently refused to load, arrived in the Thames to-day.
The stevedores and dockers were understood to have refused unofficially to handle the general cargo that was to be loaded on vessel.
'The official China Campaign Committee stated to-day that it was considering the launching of a fund to aid the dockers, who might lose time by refusing to work on the Haruna Maru, until the Trade' Union or the Trade Union Congress chose to do be, In preparation for the conference on February 12 and 13, at which Mme. Sun Yat-sen will speak, the International Peace Campaign to-day estimated that organized clubs and societies, comprising -123,030,000 members in eleven countries, were now boycotting Japanese goods.—Reuter.
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