AFTERMATH OF THE STRIKE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 209, 4 March 1914, Page 2

AFTERMATH OF THE STRIKE

THE PREFERENCE CLAUSE. MEN UNABLE TO OBTAIN WORK. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Monday. Like the members of the old Wellington Waterside Workers' Union, the men lately engaged on the waterfront in Auckland are contemplating taking steps to modify the effect of the pieferenc clause in the agreement which followed the strike, while the Wellington men have sent a deputation to the Premier alleging that preference is being given to certain men belonging to what is practically the same union. The Auckland waterside workers will this week attempt to obtain concessions through the channel of the Arbitration Act. Mr. 11. Sheppard, secretary of the Coal and Cargo Workers' Union, told a reporter that the members of the Auckland Waterside Trade Union of Workers, and of the Coal and Cargo Workers' Union, both of which comprise men who recently went on strike, were having a similar experience to that of the Wellington in t, who had appealed to the Premier. Representatives of the latter union were going before the Conciliation Commissioners on Wednesday, and expected to go to the Arbitration Court within a month. "In the event of an award not going through, there will be trouble abroad." lie added that there was great privation amongst the men with families, who could not obtain work owing to the preference clause, and many of them had distress warrants out against them. He declared that Uit new W.ilcrsidc Workers' Union was refusing admission In the ex-strikers, and was acting illegally by making itself a close corporation.