THE HUNTLY STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 44, 22 October 1913, Page 6

THE HUNTLY STRIKE.

[Per Press Association.] . Huntly, October 22

The town is very quiet. Seven fitters belonging to the Miners' Union, who turned in on Monday, awaiting a declaration of their position, acting on instructions, ceased work yesterday. The engine drivers, in their reply refusing to join the strikers, pointed out that the water makes very rapidly in the Huntly mines and should the pumps cease work great damage would be done, as the pumps are underground and new machinery would be required in case of flooding.

Mr Wood, president of the Miners' : Union, in a statement yesterday, said that while the company claimed that they started fourteen truckers, and not miners, yet the latter filled the places of truckers who had been placed as miners, being substituted for the dismissed miners. The company were shuffling the cards. The discharged men had been employed at Huntly for terms of from three to thirteen years.

Mr Oaviii Stove, a member of the executive of tlie United Federation, addressed the mooting and promised that the Federation would support the Union. The horses will be brought to the surface to-day. Tt is doubtful whether the trouble will be over this side of Christmas, as both sides are determined.