STEADY WORK AT DUNEDIN.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14839, 3 December 1913, Page 10

STEADY WORK AT DUNEDIN.

STRIKE COMMITTEE RELEASED.

(BTECLMj TO "THE PKISS.") DUNEDIN, December 2

This morning substantial euretiee were forthcoming to procure the liberty of the six members of the Strike Committee who'were before Mr Bartholomew, S.M., yesterday afternoon, and the necessary bonds being given, the men were set free at 12.45. The only indications on the wharves to-day that conditions are not absolutely normal are the series of barbedwire entanglements that surround the environs, and the presence of a few police. Three ships are being discharged today, the Turakina, .Dorset, and Victoria. The last-named vessel will receive Lyttelton and Wellington cargo to-morrow, and the company is also booking passengers by her as tar as the latter port, where the vessel will be laid up.

This morning 120 men were available for work.

At the Police Court, Arthur Tuffin, a striker, admitted using "obscene language to a man working the winch on the steamer Invercargill on November 25th. Ho was fined £3, in default three weeks' _ imprisonment, and was bound over, in his own recognisance of £50 and two sureties of £25, to koep tho peace for. six months. The Strike Committee got no quarter .from the terday when those convicted asked for time to find sureties. The magistrate said: "These men have lierl to mc in tho box, and it. is a most unusual application and one in which under the circumstances I cannot grant any indulgence. They are not entitled to it." 'ihe convicted men then asked the magistrate to fix sureties of appeal, but he said the cases did not come under the section relating to general appeals, although he would welcome an appeal. At a meeting of the Waterside Workers' Union this afternoon, the six members of the Strike Committee asked to bo allowed to resign. This action "was voluntarily taken by the Committee as an act of good faith to their bondsmen. The resignations wore accepted and a new Strike Committee appointed. .

Messrs Mackie and Jack, representing the Auckland branch of the Seamen's Union, and Messrs Baker and J. Shepherd, Wellington delegates, ar-rived-by tn© second express from the north to-night. , To-morrow they will attend a meeting of the .seamen at present in Dunedin, when some importantdevelopments are expected. Then , are fully 400 seamen in Dunedin.