UNHAPPY FEDERATION.

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

UNHAPPY FEDERATION.

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FUNDS NEARLY FINISHED, : A t stormy, -hieeiinu'. of:, wateibide ■sinkers and• ..Kwi ':I-edciaUoiiiit.-j was '•held in'tho;^'jviaii^Street'"Skating' Rink' ycuerday- nunninf.';.U cliair-))nan'"of-'thoXCwitrai;:'iStrikoj s C6himitteo;mueli .(lis!ir(kM-,..'.espe(;i;iily; ai-' tho* close -ot an :address ' by. j 1 rl:';AV:!;f'J'"Yoniig^q)resident, •ot'.'.tljo Federation'"of; Laboiir;!^--^^ : Froni 'what; eoiild jie -gathered,-.'it appears .that" tho i''(di rat ion is' iiow eery ■ shor't'rqf/i'uikls.";" ung; is, Reported tf) isavo said, that-, tho'.-'sum- of i'IOUO wasneeded . for strike - next week;.and the Federation''had only il-100 in hand.: Very little-mow \ was • coin-' iiig->:|n.'either.;-i'rom i " Australia; or from unions.' inv'New'jZealand.'';;Tho. speaker' mentioned that<tlie' nicii had gonc. : back at.. 1 oxionivi.Oiicliunga,.-;New- Jflymouth. Nelson, s£Oamaru! : :;^GreynVouthijfjrand'. also that'!tlio:,AYcstport':' Unionists' wero. rcadv.'- to ; cbmWiK.6i\wo'i;k?'y-:Mr.SYonrig concluded '_by.i' ; stating!. tliat'H "as: thcro, was vory. ho -'.could not see.how.Hlicy'could carry on further. 1 . It-is understood, that' Air. I'. Mickey expressed-, his .'opinion of 'Air'. Young and his sentiments' in ~wann'!. language. . Tho secretary of tho' Fcdo'ratipnjcertainly did not hold out-much, hopo'of winning, 1 but nevertheless ho held tho -opinion that tho struggle should;.bo;;'continued.--

Other. lied speakers ! en» dorsed ilr. ' At- tiio close': of ithe"- meeting . a- largo number -,>f' tho'. nienicxpresscd''satisfaetion with tho'-'candid ■ manner in which Mr. Y'oung had put; tlio position beforo: them. .: ='■.; ' ' Later ■ during'the day -'"Air.'.Young'was ■ -subjoctcd to - a'iconsiderablo'vamount; ot abuse from a : small crowd'. of. women, who had gathered;.in tho..vicinity of tlio Skating Rink. It is.'reported-that' they called him* by", various epithets on account of the position which, ho. had taken up.-. 'Mr..Young took.this in good; part, and did-not seem.at all.;disturbcd;i at the,turn,pLevents:;;!;'-^|i!f;|gsJS^