THE MAYOR'S ATTITUDE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14831, 24 November 1913, Page 8

THE MAYOR'S ATTITUDE.

AN ALTERED MOTION

The motion submitted to the mass meeting in Victoria square on Saturday night, and agreed to by the meeting, differs in an important essential from the resolution arrived at by the City Council last Monday night. The concluding portion of Saturday night's resolution is entirely new matter. It was understood that the Mayor (Mr H. Holland) when he told the representatives of the Strike Committee that he would preside at the meeting, did so on tho understanding that the motion to be submitted would be on the lines of the Council's resolution. There vnts also some suggestion that the Mayor might draft the motion. To clear the matter up, if possible, a representative of "The Press" asked the Mayor v the motion submitted at Saturday night's meeting had been drafted "by him. Mr Holland said that the motion was not drafted by him, and when he saw it, it was.not in the form in which it was submitted to the meeting. He did not ..know that the latter part had been added till it was submitted to the meeting.

Tho Employers' Association, which was asked by the Strike Committee to send ono or two speakers to Saturday night's meeting decided not to be represented. It is pointed out that the president of the Lyttelton waterside workers has publicly informed the committee appointed to keep the Port open that the strike is in the hands of the executive in Wellington, and the watersiders have unbounded confidence in its ability to settle the present dispute. In view of this, the Association took up the attitude, that the meeting could not be productive of any good results.