THE DOCKERS' STRIKE.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Some of the methods employed in the late strike arc so amazing that many of us are wondering under what laws we are living. It has been announced in the Press that vans carrying the Royal Mail were forbidden entrance through the dock gates, and therefore missed the outgoing mail steamer ; that the handling of a large number of American mail bags on shore in Plymouth docks was for several days prevented ; that access to the nation's food supply lying within the docks was denied ; that citizens who ventured to remove meat had their barrows upset on emerging from the docks, the while police were looking on. These are only types of the arbitrary and violent tactics of the strikers. Will you tell us, Sir, if this action has any legal sanction ? If so, what becomes of our boasted Freedom and Liberty ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
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