AFTER THE STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 8

AFTER THE STRIKE

POSITION ON WEST COAST.

(By Telegraph.-Speeisl CorresSondenU • Holiittka. January 27. iJiero aro many indications on the West Coast that the workers-learned a bitter lesson during tho recent strike. nhoii work was resumed there wns no scarcity of workers, and the majoritv gave the impression that they were heartily glad that tlie , strike was off. There is a very strong feeling in Grevmontli against % "lied'Feds." Last week Mr. P. 0. Wood, member for Greymotfth, received , one of the biggest surprises of his life. He was "turned down" by his own elass, including many of the men who helped to put him in' Parliament. Mr. Webb interviewed the president ami the secretary 6f tho Grcymoiith Waterside Workere' Union, and asked that ho should bo allowed to address the tmiou. The question wns submitted to the members, of the union,, and by one hundred votes to two they 'deckled not to hear Mr. Webb.

The new Waterside Union is largely composed of steady and settled workers with families, and they seem to be determined to do everything in their power to obliterate tlio "j?ed Fed." element as they hold that tho revolutionaries Irove been the cause ef tho recent industrial upheavals. The membership of tho new union numbers 150, and , a large number of the old mcmljfrs have Joined. Tho whistle blew last Friday to stffrt work at the Blackball mino under Arbitration, and all the miners turned to, nnd they se?med very eager to get hack t-o work. It is stated on' good authority that Mr. P. ITickey visited Ttunanga the other day and received anything but a cordial reception. A largo number of the llunanga si ml Blackball werkers arc very sore over the lato strike. Thev declaro that they were fed into the ditch. Some , erf the men say it will take them and their families a year or more to get over the loss the strike entailed on iliqni. Before the late strike fhe drapers and storekeepers in tho Orev dis-. trict experienced a groat demand for I'crt ties, M)t siiice tin* coltnpse of the .strike pid tie* Jia.no been discarded.