DEATH BLOW TO STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1937, 20 December 1913, Page 6

DEATH BLOW TO STRIKE.

A GENERAL- COLLAPSE. SEAMEN I. FIREMEN MCI TO WORK. UNDER ARBITRATION ACT. :,f ■THE FEDERATION' CAMP DIVIDED. FUNDS AT. A LOW EBB. MINERS TIEED OF THE STRIKE BOSSES.

Friday, October 17.—Shipwrights asked for incrcasa in wages, Saturday, Octobcr 18.—Shipwrights ceased work. Monday, October 20.—First mass meoting Waterside Workers' Union, at which it was decided to call a "stop-work" meeting, to b» held at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, October 22. Wednesday, October 22.—"Stop-work" meeting of Waterside .Workers' Union held on wharf. While men were attending meoting, which, being held in working hours, was a breach of agreement, other union men were put on to work in their places. Union desired that "stop-work" mo n be reinstated in their positions, and absolutely refused to work unless all of the mon formerly employed at the various jobs were.reinstated;-' Employers decided.that mon's action in knocking, off work and refusing to go back in broach of agreement terminated tho agreement with tho union, which had been entered into in -1912. Waterside Workers' Union hand control of strike over to the Federation of Labour. Waterside Workers' Union strikes, Tuesday, October 23.—Conference between employers and employees, with Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime Minister, as chairman. All steamers.move to an anchorago in the stream, Wednesday, Octobcr £9.—Employers' proposals from previous even> fng's conference submitted to tho v/atersiders, and rejected. Raid mads on ffour and other provisions being sent to Day's Bay by Cobar, Goods subsequently allowed to be shipped. ' Further violent speeches by v. .agitators in tho Post Office Squaro. Encounter at night between sus--1 ' pected free labourers and strikers at Waterloo Quay. Auckland and Westport watersiders strike. - Thursday, October 30.—Strikers assault special constables, Waterloo Quay fence broken dov/n and horses liberated. Men of H.M.S. Psyche on parade. . Psycho's stores landed from Ulimaroa by bluejackets. Mounted constables parado streets and charge strikers in Post Office Square. Three hundred special constables sworn in. Onset on Messrs, Whrtcombe and Tombs' shop; constable severely wounded, Prime Minister, states: tho'. Government's position. Lyttelton v/atersiders striko. ~, Tuesday, November 4.—Negotiations for settlement broken off on employers stipulating on union registering under Arbitration Act. Employers refuso Harbour Board's invitation to meet workers in conference. Wednesday, November s.—Racehorses for New Zealand Cup Meeting , shipped on Maunganui for Lyttelton by free labour. Mounted special constables guarding the wharf stoned by crowd. Eight arrests mado, and about thirty persons wounded In the melee. Thursday, November 6.—New Wharf Labourers' Union registered. ' . Members commence work loading the Athenic at Glasgow Wharf. Wharf approaches guarded by mounted and foot "specials," Saturday, November o.—General striko in Auckland, special constables take possession of waterfront, .Sunday, Novomber 9.—General strike called In Wellington. .Monday, November 10.—Drivers' Union decides to join tho strike, Tuesday, November 11.—Four striko leaders, Messrs. Semple, Holland; Fraser, and Bailey arrested. Members of Drivers' Union stop work. Wednesday, November 12.—V/, T, Young, Secretary Wellington Seamen's Union, arrosted. T. Barker, organiser for 1.W.W., arrested at Auckland ' Thursday, November 13.—Building Trades' Labourers' Union joins . strike., New Arbitration Act Drivers' Union' formed. Friday, November 14.—United Labour Party declares against the strike. V"'i i ■ Monday, Novomber 24.—One thousand mon working on..Wellington ts'harves. Auckland general strike declared off; ■ Tuesday, November 18.—Athenic sails for London fully laden.. Friday, November 29.—Strike leaders in Court. P. Fraser and G. Bailey plead guilty, and to be released on sureties, others remanded. Gorinthic's firemen convicted and discharged on returning to ship. Fifty seamen from Maunganui charged with desertion and remanded, Saturday, November 29.—Six members of Dunedin Strike Committee nrrested on chargo of intimidation. Two rioters sentenced by Chief Justice, Ulimaroa and Aorangi delayed in Sydney. Monday, December I.—Opawa returned to portas 14firemen refused duty, Dunedin strike leaders released on sureties. Sydney Union decides to boycott oversea vessels with New Zealand cargo. Thursday, December 4.—Striko leaders in Court. W. T, Young sentenced to three, months' imprisonment for inciting resistance to the police; but to bo released on bail, pending an appeal, Chargo againsi H. Holland dismissed. Friday, December 19,—Seamen's,Union decides to call strike off.

The strike of 1913 has practically collapsed.- Ail tho ports have been opened, and are being worked by Arbitrationist unionists, and now tho Seamen's striko has ended, and tho various branches of their union have signified their intention of being registered ■under tho Industrial, Conciliation, and 'Arbitration Act. Tho coal minors, who wcro amongst tho last to como out, will probably be tho last to go back, but it is anticipated that thoro will bo an «arly settlement in that direction. The present striko has lasted 5S days. 'And, in one respect, it bears a strong family resemblance to tho Waihi strike. In each case hostilities wore entered on at the instigation) and under tho direction of the Federation of Labour, and Vi each caso tho worke rlost his all.