THE-POSITION AT THE WATERFRONT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1996, 2 March 1914, Page 8

THE-POSITION AT THE WATERFRONT.

Sir, —AVffl you through the medium Of your columns find space to insert this, as I have to give some insight to the .people, of tho policy of tho waterside workers-, those who employ the ittou, and how those men, and' how tlic taew union men who had tho courage to uphold the Welfare of New Zealand ar-e utterly ignored by the said employers of labour t VVith a few exceptions, tho majority of tho- new rnei-r, who are- in the: union and pay their cO-utr-ib-Utioiis, are shelved and "are put to 11,0 wail by tltosQ who gave tlwpi employment during: the strike, Recently a -mail set out to show ho® the ex-strikers were not employed, and were Arisen off the wharf. Also, how a boss of one shed came along and saw two ex-strikers working' in a shsd, and told tlio boss -of that shed to discharge them. Never was, such a. glaring statement inade> ait fslse fabrication. It is. quite the r&vef-se. It is tho ex-strikers who get the best- of tlicir hargaiiu It is the policy of the ■ Red fed's., to get'tho- upper hand, and to bring the whole body of tho nx-strik- J ers to the &ont, and to get Mio whole ! body of the cx-strikers or old hands in their power to create another industrial, struggle. These men livo oft tlio host, ■ while the unions who support' them get starved, etc. After they h-avo got rid of ; the ijesv men,.tho "scabs" as they «afl'thorn, they will Seek' to bring the country and shipping 'companies' and Harbour Board to their knees, etc. The editor of tho "New York Call," -a- social organ, told the world that the special police Were "scabs," a drunken lot of. brutes, and how they used their blud- • goons on two thousand paceable. people, oven girls-, and how they shot tsvo hoys, aged 1-1 and .18. _ Anothef outrageous statement to deceive the general public, A g(mi jjjaiiy.of tho- old hands are conscientious and honourable' men, who deplore the actions of their comrades, and' especially their agitators,_ who Stj-r up tho ignorance and stupidity of the hooligans who raadb ail tho mischief aim trouble through the late strike. ' Wo have seo'ii it aeted ill the donkey-room and elsewhere, •We have see-ii -it amongst the. "ooalies," in throwing cwil-on the heads of the How union men, when they get the cliaiico, when no mail outside themselves does sec them do if- lire hew union never asked them to strike.: they went Out through their own folly and ignorance., and gave more, broad, honest, men the chance t who wanted work to help their families and themselves. Wo' want a gradual emancipation of human thorough nformation of tlie hooligan? io a Ohnst~ like distribution of justice, and goodwill to others, outside themselves, ami not. tho inoculation of ignorance, -the germ of stupidity, of brutality, and wrong-doing to others—l ai"i'