LATER PARTICULARS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10609, 7 June 1920, Page 4

LATER PARTICULARS

NO SIGNS OF TERMINATION. AFFILIATED UNIONS NOT DISPOSED TO STRIKE. There is still no sign of a termination of the strike, and none of the motormcn or conductors applied for work during the week-end. The Mayor, and the special committee of the council set tip to act in conjunction with, him in the matter, made the following official, announcement: —‘‘The (council is standing firm in its decision to require that discipline and authority must be upheld, and this is fundamental to a settlement.” ■The Tramway Union and Auckland branch of the Transport AVorkers’ Advisory Board held meetings on Saturday to further discuss the situation. No decision was' arrived at with regard to future action, the meetings being adjourned. Members of both organisations met again this morning and aftcjuiobn, when Mr J. Roberts, national secretary of the Transport Workers” Federation, was present, and up to 5 o’clock no decision had been arrived at..

.JOCKEYS STILL AT WORK

While the tramxvaymen dro on strike the jockeys, for whom they struck, are at' work, and this situation is unlikely to be altered, judging by the ■ statements made by the representatives of the Jockeys’ - Association on Saturday. The position seems to bo that the-dispute with the racing clubs and racehorse-owners being sub judice. the- jockeys’ fear to lose their means of employment if they join their sympathisers - in striking. They will, therefore, ride at the races to-morrow and again on Wednesday unites something unforeseen occurs in the meantime to chalxgo their attitude. It AIL WA YgMltN UNSYMPATHETIC. The railwaymcn, as a body, are opposed to a strike, and to any idea of joining it. They can see no reason tor xx strike and none why they should participate in it or bo drawn into the dispute. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants is to meet to-mor-row -morning, but members who wore interviewed during the week-end expressed the opinion that it was quite unlikely that they would recede from the position they"hive taken up. They stated that it is erroneous to suppose they are affiliated with the Transport .Workers’ Federation. Their only connection therewith, they stated, was that their president was also president of the Transport Workers’ Advisory Board. There is considei-ed to be Ho reason to believe, therefore, that any railway-men in either branch of the service will refuse to take out raoe trains. “To-morrow morning, and on Wednesday,” they say, “the jockeys are riding and the totalisator employees .are working; why, then, should wo refuse to run trains to the races?” .

.WATERSIDERS’ POSITION. Tlio attitude of the waterside workers is also against actively joining in the strike unless their hands should he forced by any section of the shipowners- They _ state that they have obeyed the edict of the Transport Workers’ Advisory Board by declaring races ‘‘black’! u> the extent of refusing to load or discharge racehorses on” to or from vessels, and they are not disposed to go beyond that at present. Similarly, the scamtw, affiliated like the waterside workers, with the Transport Workers' Federation, are Confining their sympathy with the jockeys and strikers by refusing to carry racehorses on their ships. POINT OP TRIBULATION. It-is a-point of some tribulation to trahiwaymon that the action of the seamen and waterside workers is on all fours with their own in their refusal to take out race cars, and that

while they hare lost their positions in consequence, no such fate has befallen the other two bodies of workers. The tramwaymeh would appear, therefore, to be alone in their action, and that many of them are realising just how foolish they have been is evident from the remarks of those seen during tic.’ week-end. EMPLOYEES IN THE DARK. A surprisingly large ! number are, from all accounts, in the dark as to why they are on strike at all. “Wo wore guided by. the spirit of unionism,” said one, ‘‘but it Looks to some of us as if wo had been made tools of.” Another man admitted that in the first stages of the' strike some of them thought that the City Council would give way to them and seek to settle with them on their own terms. They « were beginning to recognise now, however, that they bad misconstrued the fair spirit in which the council had met them in regard to the previous disputes and the new agreement entered into showed a sign of weakness. That a number were willing to con-, tinue on strike for the sake of a very doubtful principle, however, was stated to he dwindling daily-