FEDERATION OF LABOUR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 44, 15 October 1912, Page 3

FEDERATION OF LABOUR.

WATERSIDE WORKERS’ UNION. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, October 14. ■About a month ago the Dunedin Waterside Workers’ Union held a secret ballot on the question of whether it should cancel its affiliation with the Federation of Labour. Out of a total vote of 210 the proposal to secede from the Federation was carried by nineteen votes. The result of the ballot, however, did not give satisfaction in some quarters, it being freely stated that the papers did nob sufficiently clearly distinguish between the issues to be decided. At a meeting of workers on Thursday night it was decided to take a fresh ballot on the proposal, and this was held yesterday, when the voting resulted as follows: For remaining in the Federation 167, against 106.

FURTHER PROTESTS. Wellington, October 14. The Wellington Operative Bootmakers’ Association to-night passed a resolution “emphatically protesting against the action of the Massey Government in gaoling the Waihi strikers.” THE TAUPIRI TROUBLE. Auckland, October 14. An important decision in the history of labour disputes was arrived at by the directors of the Taupiri Coal Mines Company regarding the trouble at the mines. The decision took the form of the following statement, which has been presented to the Waikato Miners’ Union who, directly contrary to the warning of the directors, absented themselves from work on Thursday last. The directors have reason to believe that such action was not unanimously the wish of the miners, with whom good relations have extended. They do not, therefore, intend to take any action to the prejudice of the miners as a whole,, but they cannot allow eo serious a matter to pass without marking their strong disapproval of the same and' they have therefbre, decided 1 to forthwiilt notify' m'cmWs of the! executive of the Union that ftHeir- services are dispensed; witlV, The ! ’ T ’ V

whistle will l>e sounded as usual on Tuesday. At a mass meeting held at Huutly to-night the executive advised the men to resume work, pending the arrival of the Federation official whose advice will be to-morrow night.