After the Strike

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 167, 14 January 1914, Page 5

After the Strike

lATTELTOX WAMrsIGMS. * fly Telegraph.—Pius Association. Christ/church, January 13. At a meeting of wateraiders night a resolution passed Ay tha trationists excluding Air. UcUonranS from meetings was ie»eindod. , r TMnflj member ioi- L>ttelton tuldiewed meeting regarding the ngreeingit? tered into by the union with U» VJ| ployers ami (Red befomi ex-«Lrifecn. WMttjjH admitted to mepiberslltip. sion it was decided to set up a eomidt<Xjj3 tee to consider the union's positioiljgp with regard to various clauses in AVkmu XEW SVKTE.U A SUCCESS. Wellington, January 73. wa In accordance with tho npyr arrange tiienl labor on wharves was at various points selected, and n&U£r»-j!rcl have worked smoothly. Xo clashes he- WM tweeu old and now men arc repqrteij <"< m tind it is anticipated by the wlwrf offl- ■ 'f cials tihut the new system wHl'*(jb.|^wyf | 'MI with unpleasant incidents uluili aewi . unavoidable when jwii congregate itt ' j one large body. Preference badges \fcre {! freely sold to-day, and ft few more appli-. cations for membership of the.new "2 union were received. As yet it U im- . * possible to compete how many mftnjbeni''& of tbn union have left, tut an «pproxl- i-| mato estimate seems to be and 400. A fail- number of ex«Slrfket3 .|J luive found employment to-day, 4*lt 1 -*S| tflio majority of them are unemployed, fta! although not many hang about the p wharves. An official of the old union , i states that some of the men have gone '!> to the. country, und many ara taking , i •odd jobs about the town. Two requisi" "!_ t ions for .special meetings, signed by ex- J strikers who have joined the union, have been received by the executive, but no definite decision litis yet been "fj|| •arrived at as to when such meetings" !".$ •will be culled. ;i

HUNTLY STIUKE EXjDED. MEX JOIN NEW I'XIOX. \ ' ' v" Auckland, List Xight. . j A IliinUy correspondent te]egrapih» *, that amass meeting-of strikers waa ; J held tlii.s morning, Air. W. Wood presiding over a very, large atte<»dftnce. puring the early stages of the meetin'g those wiho had joined the new union 1 were asked to leave the null, where- ?, upon a number- of men did so. Tha 'j question of resuming work nwm than''4 discussed. Many held.the opinion.that Ijj the strike was broken, and that" <th» Yf best, thing to do was to go bacli to 'if work". The more militant section, ho\f--ever, considered they shoujd light at. .-31 Wiser counsel prevailed, and a laige' JK ■majority voted in favor of declaring Jhe strike off, and letting eaoh man <#koTJ&' •liiti e.hunce of gaining employment. • '<j| • Tlio meeting ended at noon, and five minutes pasrt two o'clock fulljr.'.jj 300 men lined up in a long queue out* side the company's office waiting their"Jß turn to apply to t'he manager far •work. All those whq are reinstated, "Jgj however, must join the new utlfofl;- \ but as each nwn must lie balloted lor,' ■',% tho process will take some fime. Nearly "<i 100 men applied for enrolment in the ' new union hist night, and tho majority of these were elected. Twenty-two tnen ' started this morning, and by the enfr ot •the) week, after-thirteen weeks idleMfcat 'both mines should be going in .full' •wing again. . .. > it ——— V :■ ILLEOED .SABOTAGE. MALIOJOTH HAMMER-THROWING. :■ Dunedin, Last Nigtfr f Wln Ist engaged chipping the inside of i the hold on the steamer lvanvom, at Port Olialmers, to-day, a man named .1, .a Wren met with injuries under ciroum- 'h stances that would appear to be highly significant. Wren is an arbilrationist, -f who is said to have been put on the; black list by ex-strikersi . He was """■ working with foyr or Ave of tlie totter, hj, when (according to his own statement) a (-hipping hammer weighing about Beven pounds whizzed past him and. si landed at his feet. A few miiuites later, ft second hammer cume from tlie quarter and with better: aim, striking . - him on the liend aud inflicting a naaty j. scalp wound. Wreli \va# taken to Dr. Hodges, who stitrtied the wound. In. ,. l $ quiry was immediately made anurogat. those who were working in th'e cold * with the injured man, but They deniM &! all knowledge of the alTuir. They *" •/. were, however, at once disimisspd. The ; Jj police are investigating the matter. : r l «J|