STRIKE COMMITTEE ON THE SITUATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 9

STRIKE COMMITTEE ON THE SITUATION.

(By TelegraDh.-Prcss Association.) m. r. i Auckland, November 19. ino Central Strike Committee has made a statement in connection with the number of unions on strike, in which they say that representatives sit on the committee from the Waterside .workers Dnvors, Tramwaymen, Sca-

men, Engine-drivers, Carpenters, Timber Workers, Furniture AVorkers, Bricklayers, Painters, Shipwrights, Tinsmiths, Hotel and Restaurant Workers, Brewery Employees, and General La- . bourers' Unions. This, thoy urge, is sufficient evidence as to the unanimous feeling of sympathy that unionists in Auckland feel towards tho strike. Ecports of deicgatea to tho Strike Committee from the unions already referred to aro all of a character to indicato determination to go through with, tho strike until the end.. The Exhibition workers, Harbour Board employees, and freezing chamber employees aro also represented on tho Strike Committee, i Tho committeo announces that only bei tween 30 and 35 Harbour Board emi ployces have been known to return to work out of a total number of between ; 300 and 400, and it is stated on behalf i of the Exhibition workers that few men other' than those employed on i "Wonderland" liavo returned. The committee further state that 30 former workers took their tcol-kits away today, and that the great majority of tho original employees. had determined not i to go back until tho trouble ".-as settled. The Seamen's Union, the roport alleges, have none of their members at work, and thoy confidently assert that no steps could possibly bo taken as alleged towards establishing a new union unless the registrar had informed them 'of the proposal.