Volume Three - The Pontoon Era - The seamen's pay strike of 1911 . . .

	1911 - The other issue, in common with strike actions was how to deal effectively with the strike-breakers. The label “blackleg” or “scab” survives to this day. In these images the strike-breakers safe house is the “Lady Jocelyn” under the protection of the local police and the courtesy of the Shipping Federation.
	1913 - To The Poor House! : Chinamen on British Ships - The periodical 'The Seaman' reported in its June 1913 edition the following statistics and named it 'A steadily growing menace'.

Tupper's rôle at this time appeared to be one of making fighting speeches urging the crowd to take action on particular issues and then going round to the scene and restoring order. At his next meeting, he first of all stopped the crowd from attacking the captain of the s.s. 'Foreric' (the ship that was boarded by the strikers the previous day) and then made a speech saying that he wished he had not restored order then. He added 'Last night a tug boat took a Chinaman from Penarth Pier to 'Lady Jocelyn'. They took them over to that dirty slave dhow. I should like to meet the tug-owner. I'd fight him for fifty quid right here (laughter and applause).' The crowd went to the tug office, followed later by a large crowd and Tupper. The Police had been pushing the crowd back and Tupper, 'loudly ordered the crowd to retreat, which they did'. Later that morning Tupper announced that the owners of the 'Foreric' were withdrawing the Chinese from the ship and appealed to the crowd not to molest the Chinese in any way as they left for the station.

In the footnotes of the foregoing article, published in "Morgannwy; transactions of the Glamorgan History Society", Mr. Campbell Balfour states: "Tupper was a man of great ingenuity. He claims he smuggled a cook on board the "Lady Jocelyn" who doctored the food with medicine until men fled the ship". [077]