OUTDOOR MEETING.

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

OUTDOOR MEETING.

SPEECHES TO SPUR ON STRIKERS. A strike meeting was' hold in Fitzherbert Tcrrace last night. There 'were about 300 peoplo present. Addresses wero delivered by Messrs. G. Farland, Kerr, Cowling, Bruce, and Fournier. Mr. Fournier presided. Mr. Farland commended the action of putting tho dispute in the hands ol' the Federation of Labour. Ho alleged that the water.iiders wero as solid to-day. as tho day they struck, except two inebriates and If the employers wanted more fight they would get it, oven, up till Christmas or into next year. The fight would go on till tho men got justice or left the country. They wero willing to go back to work, but not under an Arbitration organisation. They wero prepa'rod to stick to tho Federation of Labour. Petone, ho declared, was prepared to go out on strike "in thei full strength of its manhood." Mr. Kerr asserted that the majority of tho special constables who camo down hero had been told by their employers tluft, if they did not come, they would lie discharged. "There are 1000 members of tho Waterside Workers' Union," said Mr. Bruce, "and an fur as I know only four havo gono back on their comrades," Ho

reckoned untruthful tho -statement that one man had earned £8 on tho wharf last week: he must havo been, paid double. Mr. Fournier declared that the position at present was that, tliero Was a general strike. Apology was made for the absence of tho officers of the Federation of Labour, who wero said to bo attending an important executive meeting.