STRIKE STILL CONTINUES.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 34, 4 September 1890, Page 2

STRIKE STILL CONTINUES.

MENCHANTS 1 STOREMEN CALLED OUT. GOOD NEWS, IP TRUE. Wbiliwotoh, Tbis Day, Yesterday afternoon the Railway Commissioners received the followiug telegram from Edwards, seorstary of the Railway Servants Executive, at Christchurch : — " Maritime Council instructs me to advise that if you persist in forcing the railway men to work for the Union Company they must be compelled to block everything." To tbis the Commissioners replied : — " Railway employees are not called on to do work for the Union Company, they have to perform work for the Railway Commissioners as public servants in accordance with rules and regulations under which they are engaged, and which they bind themselves to observe. The Railway Commissioners oannot refuse to handle and convey any goods which are proferred in the way of ordinary railway business, and all their employees must be prepared to assist in any way necessary as is specially provided by the rules, and as hither* to has been the practice." The storemen in the employ of the city merchants yesterday refused to handle goods tor shipment by the Union Company's steamers and were thereupon dismissed. The Storemen's Union have therefore called out its members. Captain Highman, Messrs D. P. Fisher, Meyers and Scott will have a private interview with the Premier this evening to disouss the question. The Times states a telegram received from the Bouth» points to a belief that arrangements will soon be arrived at which will lead to a settlement of the dispute. A meeting of those officers who recently left the Union Company's service and have joined the shipmasters Association, was held yesterday afternoon. Captain Highman, Secretary of the Marine Officers* Association, states that the officers were of opinion that they are in honor bound to stand by their brother officers and the Maritime Council, and that a resolution was passed to the effect that none of the offioers should re-enter the service of the Union Company until the present difficulty was settled. Invkbcaboill, This Day. Tho majority of the railway men are averse to a strike, but, if called out, will •bey. Drinemir This Day. Sir Bobert Stout, Judge Williams, an* Mayor Roberts, who are acting as a Conciliation Committee have received communications from both parties but decline to divulge. A complete boycott has boom applied to tke Union Company. The Union Company publish a manifest in which they say several officers have told them they were really driven to affiliate with the Maritime Council because of their unbearable position with the crewa. They felt they were at the mercy of Seamen's Union which had far more weight with us than they eonld hays, and they are right. __ mmmmmmm^ mmmmmmm *