With the threatened strike of Britain's coal miners just settled (TIME, Aug. 10) by a subsidy to the mine operators, a form of settlement which even labor leaders are denouncing, a new strike broke out.
Recently, British ship owners and seamen's unions agreed on a wage reduction of £1 a month for British seamen. The seamen in a number of ports last week repudiated the action of their union officials. Ships were tied up in the Thames and at Southampton. But other seamen were found ready to take their places and in most cases there...
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