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Show A GENERAL LOCK-OUT Is What the Continued Hostile Attitude of the Sailors Will Torce Upon the Shipping Federation. TTEANIfY OP THE NEW UNIONISM. : AH Vessels in British Ports to be Laid Up ' Ship Owners Convinced That They . Must Aot at Once. London, Oct. 23. At a meeting of the Sunderland branch of the Shipping federation, it was stated that the cen-' cen-' tral authority in London was arranging for a general lockout should the sailors persist in their hostile attitude. The Shipping Gazette says on this subject: t "Should such a desperate remedy be . necessary the ship owners will have no . difficulty in making out their case. They can show that their business is I being ruined by the tyranny of the new unionism." The prospect of an immense federation federa-tion of every trade, remotely connected with shipping, has convinced ship own- ers that something must be done promptly. Better to have a short, : sharp, decisive struggle now than to make further surrender at the dictation of men as unscrupulous as they are tyrannical." The Times confirms the truth of the . statement that inquiries are to be started as to the practicability of a gen- ' eral laying up of all vessels in British . ports. |