Stevedores were urged to-day at a meeting near the Royal Dock gate at Silvertown, in the East End, not to handle Japanese goods and to join the Southampton and Middlesbrough boycott. Tt is expected after this week, that dockers will refuse to deal with Japanese cargoes.
The Haruna Maru, in the Royal Albert docks, is at a standstill, the stevedores having refused to load her on her arrival on Monday from Antwerp. One of the strikers said that a barge loaded with iron was lying alongside the Haruna (Maru, and whether it was intended for armaments or not "we decided it "would not reach Japan through our hands,"
Officials. of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha declared that it was soft strong iron from Birmingham, for anchor chains for their own ships. ' The Haruna Maru will embark passengers and sail on February 4, in accordance with her schedule—Reuter.
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