P. C. WEBB ON AUCKLAND TROUBLE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 54, 22 March 1912, Page 5

P. C. WEBB ON AUCKLAND TROUBLE.

Mr, Webb, President of tho Federation of Labor, addressing a meeting of minors at Huntly, said that tho recent industrial events at Auckland meant that tho employers had thrown down the gauntlet to tho Federation, hoping to draw them out in their present unorganised state, but the officials of tlio Federation were not falling into this trap, but would pick the gauntlet up in good time, and bang Auckland's head with it. He had got tho secretaries of all the unions in Auckland not in tho Federation together, and the result was a unanimous decision to sink all oilier issues and stand by tho Federation and fight the master-class. H« was going to Wellington, Lyttelton, and Timaru to do the same thing. They would link-up labor in tiho and then accept tho challenge given by the employers in Auckland. They would put up the finest fight in Australasia, and if defeated would go out fighting. He exhorted the. miners to stand by the Federation, as thej would suffer most in the event of defeat.