GENERAL LABOURERS.
WJLti NOT STRIKE. A meeting of tlio General Labourers' Union was ' held last evening, when a r motion to go on striko in sympathy with the watersiders was defeated by oyer three to one. An official of the unioii told ,a reporter after tlic meeting that the majority in the country districts was hound to be even greater. Tim. Waterside™' Bawl paid a visit to Petono lust eye-ning, and. was met by the Petone jluiiioipal Bond and escorted through the town to where an - opoii-a.ir meeting was held. Between (1.10 and 800 persons listeftsd to the speeches, and women with rnoner-boxes appealed fof assistance, Mesafs. Paym?, M.l'.j Parry, Iliekey, Campbell, 31' ills,. iitid others spoke on tile usual lines, «n« speaker advising his hearers (in speaking of the Press) to refuse to trade with those that contributed to the levenuo of a paper, by advertising m it, if that paper misled the public. Another speaker claimed that every £1 lost by the workers in the struggle ■ represented a lass of £200 to the em- • ploycrs. So that by "holding out" they I svere touching the capitalists en the ■ only spot that they could feci—tlieii Jji-ockcts. The meeting was orderly..
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 9
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201GENERAL LABOURERS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 9
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