STRIKERS DISCOMFITED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1745, 9 May 1913, Page 5

STRIKERS DISCOMFITED.

FREE LABOUR AT TIMAEU. (By Tfllegraph.—Prwi Association.) • _ ' ■ ' Tlmaru, May 8. Both freezing works had augmented strength on the killing boards to-day, and work was going on as usual, though' tho boards are not yet full. Great interest is taken in the result of the refusal of the waterside v-'orkors to load meat, etc., into tho Zcalandie, and their replacement by free labour. About 80 men are at work to-day. including contingents of farmers and farmers' sons (one farmer has four sons in), sheep btiyers, tlrovers, threshing-mill hands, and work ivent on not only as well but with greater 'speed than when tho regular waterside porkers are at work. The public hare ■no sympathy with this strike, ajid farmers are determined to see it through. } A public meeting of oil interested is .proposed for Saturday to set up a committee to enrol and control tho frcß .■porkers. „ } The Union Company's steamer Pukaki tame in to-day to discharge coal, and ;the unionists prepared to discharge her. but when the samo railway truck men were sent to the whaTf who had. been trucking, at the Zealandic, the unionists refused to work with them, and, tho station master refusing to send other men, the .watersiders knocked off. They, however, turned to again, and discharged tho coal into a hulk where the railway jnen were not needed. Another Union Line steamer was duo to-morrow with merchandise to discharge and produce to load, and on its being understood that sho :would not call a telegram was sent ,to the manager at Ptinedin urging that she should be sent, and the free labourers giv«n a chance; to discharge and load ner. No reply has yet been received, but it is thought doubtful whether" tno company will comply for fear of complications in other ports. CHEISTCHUECH UNIONISTS TO MEET.. . Christchurch, May S. It is understood that a mass meeting of all workers, unionists, and men engaged in the frozen meat industry is to be held in the-Trades Hair on Sunday to discuss matters in .connection with tho present position of affairs at Smithficld end Pareora. '