ACTIVITY MAINTAINED IN WELLINGTON.
ARBITRATION UNION GROWING
.*.£-... mO , *" ""' yr-f'** f WELLINGTON, November 26. A steady degree of activity was maintained along the front of the harbour to-day. The Tyaer liner Mimiro oom-
j pleted discharging her IMO torn <* • i cargo for this port, and is due/io ail for Lyttelton. Tho Kemtiora, whose consignment for this port totalled 4500 * tons, will probably have finiah«l div ' charging at tho King's \Vharf to-aor-' row, and will then i>e ready to proceed South; likewise tho big liner Conntbje. whose holds have almost been relieved of the 4700 tons of ; Wellington. ■ : :;:v-; The enrolment of members of tfia -Aiw 1 brtration Waterside Union was defc£ -" edly brisk to-day. Tho official were given as 1430 at 3 o'clock, which hour 80 men had signed on &£* " o a.m. . ... . ;j^7r ■."•*■ Three of the shipwrghts, oror TrJ6nr ; ? the trouble originally afoee, S H signed on the books of the Arb trS * are now working ,gg^
'special to "the teess. , *) :-- , . i - ; '; , WELLINGTON, NovemW Sβ. ! ?J| Tom King, chairman of the Strike Committee, and treasurer old Watersiders' Union, said last he had always been opposed general strike. If. the &ers «?&s£& they practically lost, because the organic :; sation took a long time to financial position, and a strike was practically ruinatioa shopkeepers and tradesmen. This v|§i| statemeut is regarded as a very aiem^ : kelps cant and very strong hint that waterside strikers aro weary of hopeless- struggle, especially as work is being well done without tnemi ;Ml«*> The Typographical Union, by large majority, rejected the proposal mako a levy for the benefit of the^^ l strikers. . ' ■ . -.••■■■■. '--rftj^' Agues Udall, caught throwing stonealfll during tlio not on November" sth and 4%a>i taken- out of the crowd by the police. but who returned to continue throwing, was reported in the JtfagisV;'#it# trate's Court to-day to be stiU in tho hospital suffering from nervous proa- $£# tration. It was decided to reduce W the charge against her of "taking part : #1* ra an unlawful assembly" to one of -•% "threatening behaviour." The Magistrate remarked that the woman had doubtless been sufficiently punished, and '$<§&, fined her 20s, in default 48 Bbura. ' ;;|| Tho hotels havo been S|i| The Wahine will replace the Maori in ;"'S|| tho ferry service on Friday. " :«sff Tho moderates of tho old union ar£j||§ trying to get a, special meeting to con-fM sider a proposal for a secrot ballot the question of returning to work. Ifer-|j|f is expected that a considerable section*lf|s —at least two hnndred—will join Arbitrationists in a body. ; fc|4p
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 8
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418ACTIVITY MAINTAINED IN WELLINGTON. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 8
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