WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14833, 26 November 1913, Page 11

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

- THE STRENGTH OF THE NEW, :■■-' ■ :■ ■■ .•• UNIONS ; .' ; :'-.. : - ;

(PRKSS ASSOCIATION nELMJKAM.V .WKIiLINGTON, November.-25. AVork went on steadily; along the ■ :\:,Rtf wont ..Tflfepty^six:',vessels '; : ;. A werp' alougsidej': ; . of which ;iwehty were , filtmtiingi. ': ■:•■!-' /'■ -.■'• :. ■ y -'■•;■ v ' ..:-.'.- : ■■.••"i.Tbe/onlr event of 'liroi'ioCLtho Shaw : Arawa. ; •en' bbarij many of- them t assisted, and .-." ;a*, r the''iiiie3 r " were being'made fast-a 'inprry crowd' of "young ,bl6»3s" on the . sior'anldeck sang snatches.of .music hall ' 3 efraihs. and v exchanged., cheers. withthe people; jrho waited.. Many • of.'- them wer«} - obviously astonished to see so sraany'-men wearing 'the-badgo of "spe■cial constable , . , = and' carryirig. batons, -.ahti'folloued their movements with in;'terest:; Later, when some "of the- creW 'ashore;, they did not seem to be "ir<6ry friendly disposed towards the- preisorvcrs of th'o . law, 1 and one or ■ two •littte interchanges of took ■i^plapt).:';^-:"*.."■'■;. v .--■ : '." C'■ \ ■■■'■■■'''■ . i the morning or four ; "groups of.' men, .evidently "doing -picket " duty, were- reported' '.to be ; 'abQutvin, the vicinity , of Taranaki street wharf, where the; Melbourne, 'from ■Newcastle," was unloading a cargo of ,1000 tons of coal 'f ojr • the r .Oorporation. They wero requested, to move on.;, by . tome of the ■ mounted f, < and jiot without some deigtje^fof sullenness ' they took their .departure. ' y ■.'/ •.;.,''',- '"> . > Cargo operations .were, continued with unabated vigour -on- all .tho ■ wharves. . , -■,. ;■■_ '■:■ .■-> v, ■' ■-;.-V 1 - :*: The secretary-of ;the new-Watersido i Workers' Union, • .the.:; membership; of .■ which 'is now nearly 1300,. state ' thai about" 300 men wiU.pre- 1 sentij' return to .. their_ homes ' in the country, , In the meantime town < workers have iad an * opportunity tc ; join, and have.not availed themselves i of tho" union strength is ■to be maintnined at' 120Q'active ■worKere, the balance required 1 will t« made Tip from tho «juniry. ■" >- ", , >■' ':'' '" ].>'.'' A 'fevr more drivers returned'to work to-day, and others state that they,intend- remiming.shortly., "The country ■nitn who haveitaken jobs as drivers are ; *>a»d to be giving much', satisfaction to j their, employers, who to, stand ', hy, those who saw them thorough tho time of strese; ■ . ' ..The. building trade has , only, been ' partially affecttxl by the strike, and'this ' principally tlirongh the builders'" labfmrcrs joining the strike. A shortage " of mntorial, cement and coal. Has also , contributed to the slackness. ! L} n tfa e;iragistraVs Court to-day, Nekon.ra woman -who hadal- ' ready been fined.for: breaking some i windows of the»ltoyal Tiger Hotel, was j further charged with taking part in a \ not.m-Xaranald.street on Xovember i- I°>" ew of the previous convic.uon, this charge was withdrawn by the . police. , - ' J .Frederick Thompson was fined £3, j m default fourteen - days' im- i pn.eonnient, {or using insulting ' language, , including the now familiar I .term, scab.' , during a row in Martin i ■ »troet on the 10th inst. ]