At a meeting between employers’ and workers’ representatives at the Ministry of Labor in London, it was agreed to call off the Dockers’ Strike (TIME, Feb. 25).
The employers agreed to grant the daily wage increase of 54¢ and to guarantee a minimum weekly wage. The terms of the agreement were complicated, however, by the insertion of a clause deferring payment of half the wage increase until June; consequently it was some days before a vote could be obtained from the men accepting the recommendations of their representatives.
The Society of Stevedores, Lightermen, Watermen, and Dockers (the Blue Union) whose membership is confined to London, rejected the settlement and voted to continue the strike for the immediate increase of the full 54¢ per diem.
Work was being resumed at all important British docks.
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