BLACK LIST IN DUNEDIN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 7

BLACK LIST IN DUNEDIN

APPEAL FROM BOARD'S EXUMPLOVEKS. (By aMtrmpli.-Prcss Association.) Quiiedl.it, February 10. . A deputatio.i consisting 0 f Messrs. Sieve iioreham, M'Lean, M'ATlaii, ami Montgomery waited on the Otago iiarbonr Board this afternoon to ask lite board to consider the question of rein* stating !ivo_ men who had left tho board's 6en-ko during tho strike -period, rather than carry out the board's instructions to erect barricades on tho wharves. All tho members of tho deputation addressed the hoard at length on different aspe.cts of the case-. They saicj thai the men who wore dismissed were fo2ogi.tiseA.Bs cfiicior.fc workmen, niul had been in tlio board's service for many years. When, ordered to put up the barricades tli-ey tad asked -for -police protection, which Was refused thorn. They then refused to d» the work., presumably on tho grounds'that they ran serious risk of bodily injury, and thai it was unfair from other aspects for tho board to request them to do sueli work. It was -also pointed' out that 1-ho board Was doing a wrong thing in having 18 or 20 non-unionists in its oiiiploy at tho present time when there wero unionists available for employment. Fi-r.nllj l , |hpy ■asked that, tho tlismished men should be reinstated at the earliest optior-tmrit'v. .: In the com so of a brief discussion lift-' twp'.ui the-board members which followed, Sir. Scully said there has Jb.eeii. a black list iii. circulation on tho water* front sin.eo tho strike, Slid whflt wa-'s going on was anything but a credit to the community. The matter was 'filially referred far ! report, to a committee consisting of Messrs. Bullock. Belcher. London, and the chairman (.Mr. Moller)