TWENTY BOATS BERTHED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 8

TWENTY BOATS BERTHED.

ARBITRATION UNION 750 STRONG.

, ; APPLICATIONS IN PLENTY. , 1 .. '■ fHE AT HEM € .RE AD Y TO SAIL. ■ LYTTELTON AN OPEN PORT. - GOOD PROGRESS CONTINUED AT AUCKLAND. Waterside Workers, when they 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 8 a.m. For special work special rates of pay wero provided, coal carriers, tho highest paid,, receiving 2s. an hour ordinary time, 3s. an hour overtime. - ... . ■ Friday,' October .17.—Shipv/rights askedfor increase in wages. Saturday, October 18.—Shipwrights ceased'work. ' Monday, October 20.—First mass meeting Waterside Workers' Union, at which it was decided to call a "stop-work" meeting, to be held at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, October Z2. . .... Wednesday, October 22.—'"Stop-work" meeting of Wateriide .Workers' Union held on wharf. While men were attending meeting, ; which, being held in working hours, was a breach of'agreement, other union men were, put on to work in their places. Uniori desired that v . "stop-work" men be. reinstated in their positions, and absolutely refused to work unless all of the men formerly employed at the various jobs were reinstated. Employers decided that men's action in knocking off work and refusing to go back 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, October 23.—Big mass meeting of strikers. Wharves ( : picketed. Union S.S. Company pays crews off colliers. Free labourers ' ' commence work. Negotiations between t strike delegates and employers j - fail. Report of intention of Waterside Workers' Union to-register a second union under the Arbitration Act. Speeches in - the Post Office Square ' Friday, October 24.—Scenes of violence on tho 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 steamers. • Saturday,' October ,25.—Further scenes of violence on wharves. Steamers Defender and Nikau rushed—crews intimidated. Police from country arrive. Employers issue a statefnent to the effect that no watersiders will be employed until a fresh organisation be formed and _ •fregistered under Arbitration Act. . Watersiders decide tb continue strike. Harbour Board pickets the wharves. Sunday, October k—.Mass meeting at'2.ls p.m. in Post Office Square,. Procession to Basin Reserve. - Gate broken down by crowd. Inflammatory speeches by strike leaders. ' : Monday, October 2T—Labour Day and a holiday. Observed by , strikers as. well as'-thß public. No change in the situation. . . , . Tuesday, October 28. —Conference between omployors and employees. ■ ' with Hon. W. F., Massey,. Prime Minister, as chairman. More s police arrive. S.S. Nikau rushed. All steamers move to an anchorage . In the stream. Racehorses allowed to leave for south. Wednesday, October 29.—Employers' proposals from previous evening's conference submitted to the watersiders, and, rejected. Raid made ' 'j on flour, and othßr.provisions being'sent to Day's Bay by, Cobar. Goods j,'/ Subsequently allowed to be shipped. Further violent speeches by agitators in the Post Office Square! Encounter at night between susr! fleeted ifr'ee labourersrand strikirs at Waterloo"; Quay. Auckland and Westport watersiders' strike.

Thursday, October 30.—Strikers assault special constables, Waterloo Guay fence broken down and horses liberated, Men of H.M.S. Psyche on parade.. Psj-che's stores landed from Ulimaroa by bluejackets. ■ Mounted constables parade streets and charge strikers in Post Office. * Squared Three hundred special constables sworn In. Onset on: Messrs. ■'.whitcombe and Tombs'shop; constabk severely wounded. Prime, Minister states the Government's position. Lyttelton.watersiders strike. ! Saturday, Novomber I.—Quiet day. Employers enlarge 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.—Deputation from combined Labour bodies to Prime Minister with proposals for settlement. Mass meetings at Newtown Park and Opera-House. Further contingents of special constables arrive. ,Wahine laid up in stream. Strike pickets withdrawn from ' wharves. Outlook for settlement more hopeful. Greymouth Union come out on • strike. Monday, November 3.—Wahine's men ' come ashore. ■ Wellington branch of Seamen's Union decide to strike if free labour is "employed. Negotiations'-between .employers and workers entered upon and adjourned till,following, clay. ' Mapoiirika enters ferry service to replace : ' Wahine. .Government steamers held in readiness for mails. Serious riot in Taranaki Street, special aonstables 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. Hinemoa's crew give notice. Two special constables severely handled in Tory Street. Attempt to block cartage of straw to barracks. Mayor closes seven hotels in even- I lrig. "Royal Tigor Hotel besieged. Two men arrested. .Wednesday, November s.—Racehorses for New Zealand Cup Meeting / shipped on Maunganui 'for Lyttelton by free labour. Mounted special ■' constables guarding the wharf stoned by crowd. Eight arrests.made, ■ iand about thirtyVpersons wounded in the melee. , ; .Thursday, November 6.—New Wharf Labourers' Union registered, , Members commence work loading the Athenic atGlasgow Wharf. Wharf approaches guarded by mounted and foot "specials." Fine display ■ ■ '/law and order" troops, who were cheered through the city. v City "specials", paraded for first time-make a gallant show, Stone-throwing ceases, A quiet night, Friday, November 7.— S.S. Athenic, Willochra, and Moana worked by Arbitrationists. Moana's crew leaves ship, and Willochra's deside to.follow. Union Company's permanent hands join strike. Wharves guarded, by special constables; . • Saturday, November B.—General strike in Auckland, special con- ' stables fake possession of waterfront. Waterside Federation invites new Wellington Union to affiliate. P. J. Bassett arrested on charge of attempting to murder Commissioner Ciillen. Wellington seamen decide to 1 come out. Sunday, November 9.—General strike called in Wellington, Mass meeting in Opera House, Monday, November 10.—Drivers' Union decides to join the strike. Goods carted from, wharf to warehouses under escort. Seven thousand out of work in Auckland. Work increasing at wharves. Tuesday, November 11.—Four strike leaders, - Messrs, Semple, Holland, Fraser, and Bailey arrested. ■ Members of Drivers' Union stop work. More steamers worked at wharves. Wednesday, November 12.— W. T. Young, Secretary Wellington Seamen's Union, arrested. T. Barker, organiser for 1.W.W., arrested at' Auckland. All strike leaders under arrest remanded for a week. O'ver- . sea and coastal steamers worked in Wellington. Goods carted from wharves without escort. •Thursday, November 13.—Building Trades' Labourers' Union joins strike. New Arbitration Act Drivers' Union formed, Nine steamers worked at wharves. Friday, November 14.—Seventeen working cargo, and five others coal- \ ing. -New Drivers' Union registered! United Labour' Party declares against the strike. Saturday, November 15. Trade with Wanganui and Patea resumed." Maori takes up ferry service again. More unions refuse to strike. Sunday, November 16.—Tramway men decide to remain under Arbitration Act. Mass meetings of strikers.

No less than twenty steamers were I >eing worked at the wharves yesterday, | und there is every day'increasing bustle arid activity along the waterfront. • The new Wharf Labourers' Union has a membership of 750, and there is no shortage of applicants for work. The Ivlararoa, on which the free labourers are housed, has now been brought into the wharf, and the men ito longer have "to bo carried out in a tug to their floating home. ■' ' ; . . • The Shftw-Saviir.liner Atlemc is now 'muled, and will this afternoon take hor . ieiiarturo ft " Jjondon.

During the afternoon a cowardly assault was made on a special constable as lie was leaving a city hotel.