MANY STILL OUT

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1932, Page 5

MANY STILL OUT

ON RELIEF STRIKE

POSITION AT WELLINGTON,

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, May 18. A total of 1,537 oftt of the 2,133 employed who were due to 'start to-day are 'Stated to have been at work. Pickets visited a number of the small jobs. They induced one hundred men to leave off.

The policy of peaceful penetration was essayed on some of the jobs. Some of the men, it is alleged, reported back to-day for work with the intention of taking the opportunity to discuss the situation with those men who remain determined to work, the object being to dissuade them. from; continuing.

It is stated that, on Haitaitai job, the engineer; when. th§ ,strikers came to work, put them on the lower portion of the. hill, and put men who had bean working at the top. The engineer permitted no contact between the jobs. When this position became plain to . the newcomers,- they pu|' : dqwn their tools, and left. . Things were quiet at ‘ the Trades' Hail thife itaortting, though there were knots of ttiSrt within the Hall discuss* ing the- position. . ' •. \' Thovo were 1,36? men at work ott / the relief jobs to-day, out of 2,133, according to the Labour Bureau. Several men reported back and attempted to engage those working in a discussion on the merits of the strike, -AliiUthe! foremen placed them in different parts of tho works. When, thuy found they were unable to make effective contacts they left the jobs.

ENDS AT CHRISTCHURCH

CHRISTCHURCH, May 18.

There were no absentees among ihe relief workers on the City Council and the Waimakariri Trust jobsfthis morning. 'Similar conditions virtually obtained in all Suburban districts except Lyttelton, so the relief strike here has been a total failure. •..