AFTER THE STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1943, 29 December 1913, Page 5

AFTER THE STRIKE.

PLENTY OF LABOUR AT LYTTEL. ' TON. • (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Chrlstchurch, December 28. Plenty of labour is now available at Lyttelton to work tho shipping, tho number employed on Saturday morning being about 320. Of tlieso about 70 are ex-strikers, , tho remainder being members ,of tho new union, who aro quartered onthcs.s. To Anau. Men who aro unable to obtain employment waited near tho Harbour Board's office, and, this morning for tho first timo for many weeks, there was no procossion to tho Gddfellors' Hall. About forty members of the force of special constables in camp. at..Lyttelton.wore signed off on Friday, and on Saturday morning a .further batch of thirty were paid off. The force now numbers about seventy. When tho old watcrsiders resumed -on Wednesday last a number of thorn, for whom work on shipping could not at once-be found, -were approached by a railway official, and offered work in the trucks to handle cargo discharged on the waterfront. As tho positions the.v were asked to fill h.yl been rendered vacant by members of the Railway Casual Labourers' Union, who refused to sign the declnrati'on that they would work cargo handled by the neiv union, some of the watersiders who' were approached, decided not to' accept tbo work, offered to thorn. Others, howover. were found. subsequently who did not have. the same scruples, and about 2f>. of. them ire now employed about the wharves.. No difficulty is. being exneri'"icd by tho Railway Department in finding -whatever, labour is required. .

A circular letter has been received by +Ir> new union asking it to appoint a delozato to a conference of arbitration unions to bo. held, in Wellington, or 'Auckland.