THEIR ONLY INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 9

THEIR ONLY INDUSTRY.

STRIKE SPEECHES TO EOODLESS TOWN. (By Tcloer&nh—Press Association.! Westport, November '!">. Owing to failure, to obtain live stock from AVanganui, all the butchers' shops in the 'Westport district have been closed. There is nothing doing at the Norwegian barque Nordstein, which has been in port a fortnight awaiting a cargo of coal for the Islands. The crew of the steamer Mangapap;i, now at Karamea, has been ordered out by (he Seamen's Union. The biggest F.iwmilling lirm has discharged all hands. 'Die llaihvay Department has taken over a thousand tons of the coal standing in trucks in the railway yard. There is no activity in the district, except Strike Committee meetings and strike speeches.

Mr. Tom Kim', treasurer of Ihe Waterside Workers' I'niiiii, who si.oke at the Aro Street meeting on Tuesday evening, states that his remarks were mifconstiiicd in the rciiorl- published yesterday. Mr. King was reported as saving, alter Iravorsiii" the historv of the strike, that "the' strikers niigiil win, but he did not know how thev were going to do so." He explains thai his reference was not to the present strike, on which he expressed no opinion in his address, but to .-.trikes generally, and the point ho was niaki'fg w?ia that ho was against the general strike policy, for even if the men won a strike tliey would have still lost beyond recovery their wages during tho time they were out. l''or this reason he was in favour of arbitration, but nut arbitration through the Court.