TRUTH COMES OUT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 6

TRUTH COMES OUT.

HOW SEAMEN WERE TRICKED. THEIR VOTE TO GO BACK. TACTICS USED TO UPSET IT, Announcements regarding mails and rehabilitated stea m seryiqes wore matters of pleasant comment mt the waterfront yesterday. Othor features wero tho steady stream of recruits to the new union, and the general air of busy-ncss. Some 1360 Arbitrationists were actively engaged, and 40 men wrote down their «3mes iu tho books during tho course of tho day. . As it happened, tho labour on ..hand was in short supply, and as soon as'each applicant joined ho found-imme-diate work to go to. Included in yesterday's recruit list were two ex-strikers who had originally been employed with the coal gangs. The port was very busy. Several hundred tons of southern freight and transhipments were brought by tho Kaiapoi, and tho vessel now goes south to Lyttelton to load for Auckland. Tlio Katoa is to quit for northern ports to-dayj and 110 difficulty has been met in manning ■hor. She is lifting a full load of transhipments and Wellington cargo for Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland. Londonbound, the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rimutaka wi'l pull out at 6 o'clock this morning. She took in lier 'last, sling of cargo during the evening, and the order to "coal ship" was afterwards given' effect to. I An English, Australian, and Amori--1 can mail, amounting to 1212 bags, is due 1 at Auckland from Sydney by the Tyser linor'liidrapfii'a: to-day. Tho American portion arrived at Sydney by the Sonoma from San Francisco on Monday, December 8. Thero are 361 bags for Auckland, tho remainder being destined for places south of that point of call. The Niagara is duo at Auckland from Vancouver with a largo quantity of European and American mail matter late to-night, and tho Manuka, which is due at the northern port from Sydney on Friday, is bringing a heavy Australian mail. Leaving Auckland for Newcastle on Saturday last, the Japanese steamer Kwanto Maru took New Zealand mails to Australia and elsewhere.