ARBITRATION REJECTED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1898, 5 November 1913, Page 6

ARBITRATION REJECTED.

MORE RIOTOUS SCENES I THE CITY.

TWO ARRESTS MADE.

CONSTABLE STRUCK INSENSIBLE. , ' /

SEVEN HOTELS CLOSED.

STRIKE MEETING AT NEWTOWN PARK.

Waterside Worker!, when thoy broke their agreement, were being paid Is. sd. an hour ordinary time, 2s. 2d. an hour overtime up to 10 p.m.; 2s. 3d. per hour overtime 10 p.m. to B a.m. For special work special rates of pay were provided, coal' carriers, tho highest paid, receiving 2s. an hour ordinary tlmo, 3s, an hour overtime. '

Friday, Ootober 17.—Shipwrights asked fop Increase In wages. Saturday, October 18.—Shipwrights ceased work.

Monday, October 20.— mass meeting Waters Ids Workers' Union, at v/hioh It was doclded to call a "stop-work" meeting to b» held at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, October 22.

Wednesday,, October, 22.—"Stop-work" moating of Waterside .Workers' Union held on wharf. While men were attending meeting, which, being held in working hours, was a breach of agreement, other union mon were put on to work in their places, Union desired that "stop-work" men,, be .reinstated' in their positions. ■ Employers decided that. men's action, in knocking off work in breach of agreement terminated the agreement with the union, which had been entered into In 1912. Waterside Workers' Union hand control of strike over to the Federation of Labour. Waterside Workers' ; Union strikes.

Thursday, .Ootober. 23.7-Blg <niass. meeting of strikers. Wharvei picketed. Unions S.S/Company pays crewi off colliors, Free labourerscommence work: Negotiations between strike delegates and employers fall,. Report of Intention of Waterside Workers' Union to register a second union under th® Arbitration Act • Speeches In the Post Office Square

Friday, October 24.—Scenes of>violence on the wharves. Conference of Federation of Labour delegates proves abortive. Employers decide to cease work as far as handling cargo is concerned. Fifty police guard the wharves. Warehouse clerks work cargo in small stoamers.

Saturday,-October scenes of violence on wharves. Staamors Defender and Nikau rushed—crews Intimidated. Police from country arrive. Employers Issue a statement to the effect that no watersiders : will be employed until a fresh organisation be formed and . registered undor Arbitration Act. Watersiders decide to continuo " strike. Harbour "Board pickets the wharves, , " §unday,' October 2s-. Most meeting at 2.15 p.m. In Post Office ... Square.- ..ProcGssion to DtiMn Reserve, r Gate '.broken down : by' crowd. speeches ,by strike leaders. : :

Monday, October 27.—Labour. Day and a holiday. Observed by .strikers ns well as the public. No change In the situation.

Tuesday, October 28.—Conference between employers and employees, with Hon. ,W. F. . Massey, Primo Minister, as chairman. More police arrive. ■ B.S, .Nikau rushed. All steamers move to an anchorago in tho stroam, allowed to leavo for south.

Wednesday, Ootober 29.—Employer!' proposals from previous evenIng's' conference submitted to the watersiders, and rejected. Raid made on flour and other provisions being sent to Day's Bay by Cobar. Goods subsequently allowed to be shipped. Further violent speeches by agitators In the Post Office Square. Encounter at night between suspected free labourers and strikers at Waterloo Quay. Auckland and Westport watersiders strike.

Thursday, October 30.—Strikers assault special constables, Waterloo Quay fence broken down and horses liberated. Men of H.M.S. Psyche on parade. Ps>.che's stores landed from Ullmaroa by bluejackots. Mountod constables parade streets and charge strikers in Post Offi'co Square. Three hundred special constables sworn In. Onset on Messrs. Whitcombo and Tombs' shop; constabin severely wounded. Prime Minister states the Government's position. Lyttoiton watersiders strike.

Saturday, November I.—Quiot day. Employers onlarge their strike committee. Large bodies of specials arrive from the country. Skirmishes with strikers In town/ Wahine's crew give notice to strike. Oamaru, watersiders join strike.

Sunday, November 2,-Deputatlon from combined Labour bodies to Primo Minister with proposals for settlement. Mass meetings at Nowtown Park and Opera House. Further contingorits of special constables arrive. Wahlno laid up in stream. Sirike pickets withdrawn from wharves. Outlook for settlement more hopoful. Greymouth Union como out ori strike.

Monday, November 3.—Wahlne's men como ashore. Wellington branch of Seamen's Union decide to/strike if free labour Is employed. Negotiations between employers and workers entered upon and ad- , journed till following"day. . Mapourika enters ferry servlco to roplace Wahinc. Government steamers held in readiness for mails. Serious' riot in Taranaki Street, special oonstabies being attacked by mob Several persons injured-three seriously. Revolvers used. Mob indulges in window-breaking and other damage.

Tuesday, November 4.—Negotiations for settlement broken off on employers stipulating on union registering under Arbitration Act. Employers refuse Harbour Board's invitation to meet workers in conference. Mass meeting of strikers at'Newtown Park. Hincmoa's crew give notice" Two special constables severely handled In Tory St.eet. Attempt to block cartage of straw to barracks. Mayor closes Severn hotels In evening. Royal Tiger Hotol besieged. Two men arrested,

The negotiations for tho settlement of tho strike came to a sudden ending yesterday afternoon. The conferonco botwecn'the employers and tho men lasted only a few minutes, and broko up immediately the employers stipulated that the union should register under tho Arbitration Act. ' ; ■ ■

In the morning the orew of the Hinemoa, apparently with some reluctance, handeeT in their notices, in compliance with the Strike Committee's request that they should coase work and provent 'the vessel being used for the carriage of the mailß in an emergenoy,

The situation was discussod at a mass meeting held by tho strikers in the ovening .at Newtown Park, and a resolution was' carried calling on tho Harbour. Board to- close the wharves against froa labour. The Mayor, with a view to preventing disordor, took the precaution of temporarily closing soven hotels in Newtown and in the vicinity of the Bucklo Street barracks.

1 A brutal attack was mado during the nftornoon .'on two special constables' who were passing along: Tory Street. Ono of the men' was "-badly" knocked about, and was repeatedly kicked while lying prostrate on tho ground. Tho police only arrivod in time to lead the injured man away after the attack was ovor- • ... ...

Tho Royal Tiger Hotel, in Taranaki Strcot, was again bosieged by the mob last ovening,'. and more Btone-throwing ivaS ! indulged in. Tho public will learn with plfcasuro that.two', arrests were' malle oli this 'occasion by tho police.

Th'o 'position of-the shipmasters and officers, was made, plain' jta largelyRttpnded meeting of the Merchant Servicer Guild in tlio city yesterday,' when a statement, was issued sotting out that thov had not tho slightest intention of co-oi)eratin£ with the strikers*