WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 56, 24 July 1912, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

WAIIIt STRIKE FUND. By Telegraph—Press Asiociation. Auckland, Last Night. A meeting of Auckland citizens was held to-day to consider what further assistance should be given to the Waihi engine-drivers who have been thrown out of employment iby the strike. Those present were very enthusiastic, and all the speakers were unanimous in a resolution to guarantee funds for the enginedrivers till the termination of tlie trouble. Since the fund has been inaugurated, the men out of work have each benefited to the extent of £2 per week, and the number now requiring relief is between thirty and forty.

"A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF." Wanganui, Last Night. A meeting of delegates of the New Federation of Waterside Workers was held in Wanganui to-dav to consider steps for strengthening the federation. There were present Messrs. Burrows and McCarthy (representing Napier and Gisborne), Hay ward (Bluff), Smith (Wanganui), and also the following members of the executive: Messrs. Seal, Callaghan, Donnell, White, Mandeno, and J. McKay. The secretary's report regretted that out of twelve unions a year ago only four—Napier, Bluff, Gisborne, and Wanganui—remained loyal to the federation, the rest having gone over to the Federation of Labor. Mr. J. Reed, president of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation wrote from Lyttelton regretting the turn events had taken, and warning other federations of unions from being split up by the Federation of Labor, which was making but little progress in the right direction, and was only dividing the house against itself.