RED FED. EAVESDROPPER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 7

RED FED. EAVESDROPPER

LISTENING AT DOORS. TO WATER ErfCS DELIBERATIONS. The executive of tl:o Wellington tthaif Labouiers' Union sat in committor practicalh all da\ vestoidav for ||i.6 purpose of discussing business aris-' nig out of tbe general meeting of tho union wbieb was iieM on MoudaV evening. . When n reporter asked Mt'. J." T.i Radcliffe (president of the union) if there. -was anything for publication, ho said- "Not as jet. Tho business wan purely of an infernal chnraeter.. and I no., statement to make roßaKding "Just to sliow bm.\ careful \\c have •to bo," continued Mr. Radehffe., "and wliat inetliods tlje : c£lbriicnt 1.11 «vir union 7)11 adopt to gam jin insight as to Sivhtrt .business -tho =executivc is dealing with, I wilt gi.vo .you an iustsnca of what happens! to-day (Tuesday). The. .executive comipenccd its meeting this .morning, and it.l>a<l'on!y sat lor a littl'o while when wo heard a noise outside oile of tho doors. No notice >vi.» takeil- of it- at the timpi.- and tho business proceeded. • Subsefi'ic-mly ait official of Abe i/iinion. -bad .' occasion to l-ofor .to.'certain remarks: passed: by a prominent inembcr of .the old union at Monday night's meeting. ITo -was proceeding to discuss the. matter, nlien suddenly a nianj-Vno happ'oned-' io bn cntside. the dofir, railed' out, 'You're a liar!' or words to that. fiflwt. I diately w'ent outside and found a largo number of : tln>. Rrnl Federation element, who are mraibers of '<rar union, cotl-iU-egatcd iu the passage. I rttoigiii'sji'd the speaker at once 'as- a liromiiient member of the old union, and one who bad taken an active part* in Well tlVo result ,\vi>s flint wo were, compelled to vacate the union ofpeps; for the- day;, nun wo proceeded. to.a: .i;?om in another building.' Oilce inside '.vo w(*re able to conduct iiio business of tho meeting, in ponijc and ".uk'thess, w.iibofit iiiiefrnption. and without aiiv of I)ip Red Fedorai ion.isis being ible jto place itheir car-s- to 'ibe>keybolf;" "r'%.