AN OUTSIDE OPINION.
WHAT THE SEAMEN HAVE TO LOSE. A prominent- member of the local Trades Council remarked; in conversation with a reporter on Saturday, that if the seamen came out at this juncture they would _bo guilty of the greatest folly of their career. They had, he said, the best agr-eoraont in'the world, a(id for the first tinio in history, so far as seamen were concerned, had secured preference to unionists. In addition to ibis an amending Act, calculated to confer further benefits on seamen, was how before Parliament, The moderate section of, the seamen, the Unionist referred to stated, fully recognised that the present strong position of their organisation and its members had been seriously jeopardised by the foolhardy action takon at. Wellington, and 110 doubt the Dunedin and Auekka.'?. delegates would do all in their power to repair the damages that had tl.nis been done. The seamen, lie added, had absolutely nothing to gain by joining in the present strike, and they had everything to lose.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1902, 10 November 1913, Page 8
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169AN OUTSIDE OPINION. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1902, 10 November 1913, Page 8
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