STRIKE PICKETS TIRED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1893, 30 October 1913, Page 8

STRIKE PICKETS TIRED.

WISH' THE TROUBLE WAS OVER. From information received from reliable sources, it is fairly clear that there is not that unanimity of opinion on the strike among those who have "downed tools" as the strike leaders would have the public believe. A large number of strikers have been commandeered for picket duty, and some of them aro tiring of the struggle—the daily harangues of those who are not watcrsiders and are the stormy petrels of industrial life in New Zealand, the greater number of whom do not express the sentiments of at least 50 per cent, of those now "out." "I'm sick of the whole business," said one of the pickets to a friend yesterday, "and there are a good few of us 0 f th-e same mind. The conditions under which we work, the wages, hours, and conveniences provided, are better than they've ever been in Wellington, and they're good enough for meT You take m.v tip that if another union is formed there will be plenty to join it in a day or two. We can't, talk about it—the 'push' would take our heads .off if we did as things are, but there's quite a lot of the men who reckon that tho union lias bitten off more than they can chow, and they don't like the parties that talk blood and fir© in tho Square."