HOSPITAL COAL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1901, 8 November 1913, Page 6

HOSPITAL COAL

PUT ASHORE BY STRIKERS.

(Bar TelcoTaph.—Press Association.) mr . . OHristohurch, November 7, Tho-eighth day of tho strike at Lyt- ! [ SWthing, quieter than any crfl waa no arrival m ..port, Signs are not wanting that the strikers are rapidly becoming tired of their onforced ldlencßss, and will gladly welcome a call tp resume work. Thfi s.i'tuatien at Wellington is being olosely watched for the first sign of settlement, tind many of tho Lrttglton watersidora openly avow, their eagorries for a finish. U W ogress confidence that the trouble F, 1 ". he °*QT, and work resumed by Monday .nesrt, A reporter wan. informed this afternoon that the movement ill tho direction of forming a now union was making good, progress, and that there was a strong probability of its being «n accomplished fact very soon. Tho reporter's informant wont 60 far as to state that work would bo Started tomorrow or Monday. The sight of a collier being discharged by strikers attracted attention te-iftty. The Union Company's Flora had 011 board 300 tons of State coal consigned to the Sunnyside Mental Hospital. ; tho Chrfetchiircli Hospital, and other' institutions. Per-. mission was given by the strike committee .far 2yo to be landed for • the ■ Mental; Hospital, 100 tens for tho church Hospital, ayd $ tons for other institutions, The- worli Was started' at' ■8 0 clock by two gangs of waterside volunteers, each fourteen strong, working in two-hour shifts." They worked'on ' tho collier, arid the baskets wero tipped into the trucks by railway hands, Tho strikers aro handing the pay which they will receive for tho work to the strik'i funds.