STRIKE AFTERMATH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 January 1914, Page 6

STRIKE AFTERMATH.

NEW UNION AFFAIRS.

WHARF PROTECTION.

[Per Press Association.]

Auckland, January 14

The executive of the Wharf Laborers' Union will probably come to a decision to-day as to what attitude it will take up regarding the two requisitons. from ex-strikers who are members of the Union asking for a. special meeting of the Union to be called for Saturday. One of the questions asks that the meeting sball consider proposals that three members of the Union be appointed to take charge of the Union's books and subject them to a thorough investigation, and that pending investigation the secretary be suspended and two' acting secretaries be appointed to hold office for such period as the Union in general meeting may decide.

The executive states that it is anxious to abide by the spirit in which the Union was formed and to carry out the rules of the Union. It is intended at any meetings to decide all question by ballot. In a typewritten circular issued by employers, it is stated that foremen, in cases of intimidation, shall immediately suspend the individual at fault and report the matter to the head officer.

Regarding the matter of increased police supervision on the wharves, Mr R. Fletcher, chairman of the Harbor Board, states that in normal times it will not be necessary to increase the waterfront police. Very little trouble or pillaging oeeurrqd in the ordinary course of events, and two policemen were sufficient to patrol the wharves.