SATISFIED NEW UNIONISTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 8

SATISFIED NEW UNIONISTS.

A HUMOUR DENIED. A fonlemporary .yesterday published n statement to t]u> elfeet that sonic members of the Arbitration Union were liissatislietl with their lot, and stated that the men were not at all pleased with the prospect of paying Bd. for a meal and Is. (id. for a bed. On inquiry yesterday, it was ascertained Unit it was proposed to charge Bd. for weals (which was just about cost price) served in X shed, but it was not proposed to charge, for sleeping accommodation. Up (ill the present both had been provided lice of cost, which arrangement was made because most of the men who commenced to worlc three, wcelcs ago were fioin the country, and necessarily had no lixeel place ot abode in tno * city. iVow there were some hundreds of men in 'the union who lived "In Wellington, and with whom no arrangement had been made to" provide them with free, liieals. As a matter of fact, one of the men who was questioned said that the men ho had been associated with thought tSie charge for meals qtiite a fair tiling. Sir. Long (secretary of tho new union) said ho was unaware, of any dissatisfaction among the men, whose confidence he believed ho held. He had been round the "whole day among the men, and could not find, 'with tho strictest inquiry, any trace, of dissatisfaction with the way they were being treated. Up till the present the men of tho new union, he was proud to say, had worked well, had behaved with tho greatest loyalty, and they, on their part, had endeavoured to treat all hands with tho greatest, consideration, knowing tho good work they were doing for the port and the country.