FEELING IT NOW.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1993, 25 February 1914, Page 7

FEELING IT NOW.

THE LYTTELTON EX-STRIKERS. r . • 1 1 (By Telegraph.—Press A&soci&tion.) GhrlstohurotV February 2*i. Lyttelton-wharf. workers met to-day to 1 discuss tho preference .question, also to protest against an article in a'local newspaper suggesting that ex-strikers were "creating trouble in the port ; Over two attended. A motion of protest against the articlo was carried with one dissontient. A' member said the present position at Lyttelton was untenable; no reasonable ' body of men could work under it. Competent mon wcro being refused work, while incompetent men got preference. The"wages paid in the port ivero tho result of tho work of tno old union, . arid now the old unionists were being ruled but. He did not- know whether they ought to leave the port altogether. Many unionists now receiving preference were; ex-strikers from other parts of the Dominion,'and others had taken part in tho drivers' "strike inr, Christchnrch. " Thev ought to stand by their fellow workers. . He moved\that .unionists receiving preference from the shipping , companion bo asked to attend a conferenco.to discuss tho.situation. Another speaker , said the workers had accepted the new conditions loyally. If theoriginal arbitrationists were not prepared to stand by organised labour they should get,out of.the ranks. The motion was carried unanimously. It is stated that 150 original arbitrationists are still receiving preference.