AFTER THE STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 164, 10 January 1914, Page 5

AFTER THE STRIKE.

AN ACUTE LABOR PROBLEM. ! ON WELLINGTON'S WATERFRONT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. WeKiiVJton, Ye-teniay. The Labor prol lent on the waterfront can be safely described as acute at the present juncture. The membership of the Wharf Latiorers' Union is approximately 3050 and, allowing for a number who have left the. organisation, there remains a surplus of fully a thousand men above the number required to do the work in normal times. Tn same, departments of the work there b not even enough employment for the men who joined during the strike and some of them are growing sore at not obtaining jobs. The great majority of exstrikers cannot, in view of the comnact made by the employers to •ive the loyalists preference, hope to "ct anvthins but most casual work, and the position of a labor foreman is not aiwavs picasant.

The executive of the union has received manv complaints of assaults and vile language, the latter especially, and the problem of dealing with the off.'iidct's i~ an extremely difficult one. A suggested solution fs that the shipping companies and Harbor Boar,! appoint large permanent st.iff,-. and nnottn ris that, ihe (irastic stco- of closing the wlitirves in the meantime be adopted. THE lIUNTLY .MEN. DECIDE AGAINST IU^UMINTI. Auckland. Las I Xigiit. The "Faintly strikers decided at a irass meeting 10-d:'v to take a • secret, hillot oil the question of going back to work. The meeting was attnided bv some ."flfl men. The result of f.h.' hil- | lot showed 230 in favor of remaining out. and 70 ill favor of going hack.