THE SEAMEN AND THE STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 93, 19 December 1913, Page 4

THE SEAMEN AND THE STRIKE.

The anticipation in Wellington that the seamen (says the Dominion) night take a hand and play an important; part in helping the strikers out ;i the difficulty they have been lanled in by the blundering of the Federation of Labour seems likely to be realised. Already the seamen's delegates and the shipping owners have been in conference, and it is understood that an amicable understanding was arrived at satisfactory to all parties'. The s-eamen do not belong to the Federation df Labour, and being untrammelled »y any ties outside the interests of their own organisation, were aide to handle their own affairs in their own way. T-:-? result d*'understood to be that the <i\nme'n will return to their ships under an agreement} which they regaid as fair and reasonable, and which in-, eludes registration under the Arbitration Act. Tt may He expected that other anions will follow the commonsense course now pursued by the seamen's delegates. There is absolutely nothing for them to gain by continuing irlle, and tlie astonishing thing is that thev were unable to see ; this long ago.