THE UNION ACCEPTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 6 February 1912, Page 5

THE UNION ACCEPTS.

"UNQUALIFIED VICTORY FOR, THE MEN." A meeting of the union was held at 3 o'clock in the King's Theatre. It way purely a union meeting, and no one except members of the union and those who had been identified with Hie strike movement were a Mowed to be present at it. A cohtinunllr dispersing nnd reassembling crowd, with a constant nucleus, waited on the street for some hours to hear (ho verdict. Comrade Dowdnll was in Iho nucleus, and he holyed by declaiming against the City Council and the Federation of Labour, and compromise, nnd things in general to keep other people amused, and to get himself into trouble. Ho attracted tho unwilling attention of a man in. blue. After some two hours of waiting tho people, were rewarded by a statement from Mr. ]?■ Hickey, of the New Zealand Federation of Labour. JIo Said (hat tho terms of settlement" agreed upon by the City Council and by the Strike Committee had been accepted bv the unanimous vote of the union. They looked upon id as an uiuiunlificd victory for the men. So far as the Tramways Union was concerned, they had every right to l» proud of the splendid light they had put Up, and also organised Labour had <in erjual right to be proud. This settlement, proposed by one of tho opposing councillors, was accepted as perfectly satisfactory by the Strike Committee. A voice: What about Joey Ward? Mr. Hickey replied that Sir Joseph Ward would not have interfered in the matter if it had not been for the action of organised Labour, which had compelled him to take n hand. It had boon a win for organised Labour right through the piece. Tho meeting had already gone on for two hours or ho l>eforo Mr. Hickey spoke, and it did not end even thon. All that tho public learned of what occurred was from loud cheering which could bo hoard at freiiucnt intervals. Tho union were evidently being regaled with mow strike talk by the leaders.