AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1921, 2 December 1913, Page 7

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

FROM THE STRIKERS. "SANCTIONED NO RIOTING OR DISORDER." sytinay, December 1. 1 Tho Trades and Labour Council lias received-ah official statement from il.e organisation, in which the following clauses occur:— "Tho union lias agreed to resume work under tho old agreement, and to maintain tho status quo of wages and conditions. Tho employers demand abolition of tho union, abrogation 'of the agreement, denial of the right of waterside workers as .a whole to organise into one association. Assistance has been readily rendered by a large section of the general public, which lias shown sympathy with tho desire of tho wntersidors to maintain their union. Tliev won't bo beaten into subjection By hardwood batons and revolvers of special con,stables, who arc really not ihc legitimate police, with whom the aien have 110 quarrel. The oommittco Jl'voa an assurance that if the agreement is reinstated and given a clean llate tho work at tho port will proceed lpaco as if 110 interruption had taken place. Tlui committee points out cases In which the employers, charged with breach, of _ agreement, .number 4M, whereas employees' breaches total 130. If, then, a breach of agreement meant abrogation, there would not be a silicic award .'in. existence to-day. The committee sanctioncd.no rioting or disorder." • -■ - : • ■

"SYNDICALISM-ON TRIAL.'" Sydney, December 1. Tho "IFnrahl" savs.: —"The Syndicalist method is oil trial in New Zealand, and at present, it is a question whether it shall be tried in Australia. Also nil appeal has come from the leaders of the movement in' New Zealand, who are fast losing ground there, but who look to bo dragging in Australia as a last desperate resort. The real division in New Zealand and here has been not over the original grievance, but tho method whereby it wr.s attempted to settle it. The Syndicalist leaders of Now Zealand have given tho world an object-lesson in tho Syndicalist method of remedying tho grievance:! of a few men (the shipwrights). Wo do not greatly fear an extension of the-strike in Sydney this week, as tho strike before next Saturday's election would havo ono certain result, as the. Labour leaders aro well aware." .