GETTING BACK
AFTERMATH OF THE STRIKE. There was quite a littlo scene behind tho hoardings on the building in courso of construction for Mr. C. Smith, in Cuba Street, yesterday morning. It seems that a certain carpenter, in tho rather depressed times during the strike, accepted work on tho wharf, and became a "preference man." Whilst coaling ono of the Union Company's boats on March 12, a basket of coal fell on him, and for six weeks ho had been off duty on sick pay (335. a week). Feeling something like his old self he decided to try and get work at his old trade, and, it is said, after seeing the Carpenters' Union secretary (Mr. Blatherwick) and arranging to pay up his duos when he was ablo he went round and secured a job oil C. Smith's building. He commenced there at 8 a.m. yesterday, but about three-quar-ters of an hour later, one of -tlio. men who happened to know him—a bricklayer's labourer—bantered him about his having tired'of work on tho wharf, and later spread.tlie news around that thero was a "scab" working on. the job. As the result the bricklayers, carpenters, and labourers downed tools, and sought the overseer, and stated that thev would knock off in a body if tho man was not put off. Tho overseer put the man off the job, and work was resumed. What tho position ivill ho when the secretary of tho union moots the members concerned will bo interesting, as the man vent to work accredited •by tlio union secretary who, it is stated, Jiad a full and c'omploto. knowledge of .uii tlio circumstances.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2138, 2 May 1914, Page 6
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273GETTING BACK Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2138, 2 May 1914, Page 6
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