SHIPPING AND LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 2, 3 June 1913, Page 5

SHIPPING AND LABOR.

A TCANGANUi PROTEST.

Per Press Association.

Wanganui, Last Night. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting' .• to-night, a rfesoliition was passed eadorsing the action of the Wcll'sjrfon Chamber of Commerce in protesting against the alleged proposal of shipping companies to .make a compact with the Federation to exclude free labor. A MYSTERY. , . Christchuroh, Last NigM. Mr. P. C. Webb,, president of the Federation pf Labor, and Mr. R. Semple, ■ the Federation's organiser, were in total ■ to-day, but declined to state "what wag „ the object of their visiti Mr. W.ebb, ia \ reply to a question, stated .Ityii there' were no developments to report l Ul ion- ; i/, ucction with she proposed agreements t ' 1 between the shipping companies an<],the ... ' waterside workers. " ■ AX ANTAGONISTIC RESOLUTION.

UNION COMPANY CONDEMNED.;' j , 4 i « ' • Timaru, Last Night A large ajid representative meeting of and shippsrs' this afternoon passed the following resolution, and sent it to the Union Steamship Company:—"-*"" "This meeting deplores the action of the Union fSteaniship Conipanv in em"'ovinw Federation labourers who have hvoken their agreement repeatedly, instead of employing men who eume to the ass'stnee of the shipping companies and enabled the vessels to he worked on the oeencion of the recent strike, and wlnt attitude it intended to adopt in the future." • i