8 APRIL 1893, Page 3

A great dock strike is going on at Hull, in

which it is said that the strikers have resorted to American methods of in- timidation. Nearly a score of the free labourers working on the Plato were, it is alleged, seriously ill after drinking some coffee, which had apparently been mixed with some acrid pur- gative, probably croton-oil, which was also falls:A in the men's drink at the Carnegie factory. The majority of the free labourers were frightened, and gave up the work. This is the age of government by Love, and the labourers are its preachers.