Scots Unload Ship At Struck London Dock -- Soldiers of the Scots Guards regiment,-ordered to unload perishable. food car-goes, remove frozen beef from the SS Argentine Star at London's Victoria Docks, yesterday. A strike of stevedores had halted all loading, and unloading operations of ships moored in the area. Today Britain's Labor government warned 10,000 idle stevedores to get back to work by Monday morning or it will ask King George VI to declare their work stoppage a state of national emergency. July 27, 1949. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).