THE STRIKE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 625, 6 December 1913, Page 5

THE STRIKE.

POSITION IN AUSTRALIA. WHARF LABOURERS' BOYCOTT. VESSELS WORKED BY OFFICERS. By Telegraph..—Pros* Association.—Copyright Received Friday, 10.5 p.m. Sydney, Friday. The wharf labourers are still boycotting the whole o; (lie Union boats. The Karif.ane to-day was worked by the officers and stall". Those invited to the conference by the Industrial Commissioner f comprise the Union Company. Ihiddart Parker Company, Wharf Labourers' Union, and Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Union. The Maunganui to-morrow carries nearly three hundred passengers. It is proposed to despatch the Manuka on December I:>th. AUSTRALIAN RECOMMENDATIONS. ;MR HUGHES URGES ARBITRATION. CABLE TO PRIME MINISTER. Received this day, 10.5 s.m. Mr Hughes, ir, a cable to Mr Masscy, hopes the latter will use every influence to persuade the employers to accept arbitration. He emphasises that all matters including; questions of registration and non-registration preference and non-preference, arbitration unionists, and Waterside Worker:'.' Federation, be embraced in the pro no sal and be decided by arbitraf ion. The Union Company's staff ia Pteadiiy unloading the Karitane and Tofna. The timber trade is now included in the black list, wharf labourers refusing to unload the Inga. Stringent measures are being taken to overcome the men's defiance of the conforencFs order to work certain heats. W, r Huynes. ns proficient of the Wan-rride Workers' Federation, served formal notice on the secretary of the !oi a! branch to instruct members to tie tlie u wired work and din c; the cs.-nrivr officers to attend the whttrves and :Uiord all necessary protection to there prepared to carry on (he v.■ ■ '.. /. a■' members refusing or ini erfe-in:;' \v i: h "Fiers to be forthv.'iv'i? ypis applies t.o mem* hers of ail unions involved. Prior to this ukase the employers asked t.ho wharf labourers oil'miais themselves to worlc ihe boats, but they declined. FARMERS AND THE STRIKE. AN AUCKLAND APPRECIATION. JltY TKLKGRArir. —I'RKSS .VSSOOI.ATiON.I Auckland, This Day. At a meeting of women convened by the Women's Political Reform League decided to raise a Itmd to provide higher eoncn.iion 'for farmers' descendants in she Anckinnd province to com memora. i e the patriotic action of the farmers during, (he recent industrial crisis. FARMERS' UNION ATTITUDE. Wellington. This Day. Mr ('■ Wilson. Dominion president. of the Now Zealand Farmers' Union, cabled 'e. ilm Farmers' and Se'it!ers' A■■ ■;e 'a, ■ eSydney, asking (hem to tTtve pnhFri'v to tlie fact that the Farmers' ''nion is 'strongly oppose!! io n:;'s ■'!*'. f erms with the Fedt 1 ratiot J suionr. He added the Federation. ' fe- trivial ""reasons, brought the farmers to the brink of ruin, which nv.-ru-d only by the prompt' action of the farmers. VICTOR!/>i: \'l I f.Y RESIGNS. P\■ ' i", ■'[(•■-r, jC', ]'!, \ ..•!:)! i.iii.- OnOyriKlH Received Frv, FT. p.m. It' elncurne. Friday. The We.C F< inii't." y has resigned. 'fin- tFuet'ocr will probably summon Mr Flmrlee, 1 ::'.-,-nr lender, to form 8 Cabinet M r " Flo'sFeV F.niv consiatH of twenty members in a House of sixtylive. Failing hie undertaking to form a Ministry, Mr MeLeod, leader of the Country party will probably be aummoned.