The Strike.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 18 November 1913, Page 3

The Strike.

ATTEMPT TOTOGX MAIN TRUNK EXPRESS. Auckland, Saturday. There is increased activity on the water front. A new union of hotel employees is in course of formation._ Full crews have been obtained for the whole of the coastal fleet. Large numbers of experienced men are making application for employment. An arrest was made in Park Road yesterday of a young man on a charge of attempting to discharge a loaded revolver at

special constable. One hundred mounted men have gone home on account of urgent work on their farms. Their places have been taken by volunteers. As a result of a conference between Major Lusk and Suparinj tendent Kicly it was decided that the force of special constables be maintained at its full strength during the continuance of the strike. The strike of the hotel workers is over. 1 n response to advertismonts from the Licensed Vic- | tuallers Association over 200

hotol employees_ of all grades applied for positions,

An attempt was made on Thursday evening to wreck the southward Main Trunk Express near Green Lane, gelignite being discovered and removed from the line a few moments before the train passed over the spot. BRUSH AT WELLINGTON Wellington, This Day The membership of the new union is 700, and the steamer Mararoa, on which the men are quartered, is unable to accommodate any more. The men working the Marera are being housed and fed on board the vessel.

The Athenic has completed coaling, and will be ready to sail to-morrow. Some slight resentment was shown when the police first cleared the square this morning, but a display of force, in which no one was seriously hurt, quickly suppressed it. A number of men tried to get on Taranaki Street wharf, where the Dorset is working, but mounted specials arrived and promptly scattered the unruly element.

NOT THEIR TURN Wellington, Thursday The Wellington Tramway Union decided not to cancel registration under the Arbitration Act by 81 to 30. The feeling was expressed that unions more intimately connected with the waterside workers than the tramway men should go out before tramwaymen were called on to strike. It was agreed to make a levy of 5 per cent, on unmarried men and 2i per cent, on married men in support of the strikers.

SKIPPERS EVERYWHERE Wellington, This Day. The steamer Maori's crew is composed entirely of members of the Merchant Service Guild. In the stokehold there are seven extra ticket masters, and among the deck hands nine of the A.C.'s are masters; in fact, they were everywhere. Therejwere enough offering to man both the Maori and the Wahine. It is stated that the Union Company offered ext-a money for service in inferior positions, but the men declined. NO COAL FROM WESTPORT Westport, This Day An unfounded rumor of intention to work shipping brought three hundred Millerton miners to town this morning. According to present appearances nothing will be done here in coal export till next year. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION'S , DECISION Wellington, Thursday Another attempt was made by the Federation of Labor to induce the Typographical Union to come out, but at a meeting held to consider < the proposal it was rejected with only one or two dissentients, the union being of opinion that no good purpose would be served by ceasing work. SIX WEEKS' GAOL Wellington, Thursday.

Richard Jones, who threw bars of iron at mounted specials, sought to establish an alibi. He did not succeed, and was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. DUNEDIN "SPECIALS" . Dunedin, This Day. Over 400 specials have been enrolled, and work will start on the wharves immediately. THE LATEST. Auckland, Tuesday. More strikers returned to wc.rk yesterday. Over 2000 men are now working. The. following i° a conservative estimate of the number on the works including a number of new men :-Waterside Workers,

435; hotel and restaurant employpen, 400 ; Exhibition workers, 2io ; Harbour Board men, 220 ; carters. • 200 ; carpenters, 200 ; City Council employees. 203; aerated water workers, 80; joinery factory operatives, 80; sailmakers, 20; total 21(55. Fully 300 men and girls are at work-in the hotels, and a I hundred others in the restaurant?, So completely has the hotel strike broken (town that 337 applications for were. ro(!©ivccl by thGLiconssd Victual* Ws Association, although the requirements of the Auckland hotels vary from 323 to 350.

A conference was held yesterday between the City Magistrates the Superintendent of Police, representatives of the licensed victuallers association, and the strike committee regarding 1 the question as to whether the hotels should remain closed or not. Several reasons as to. why they should be opened were put forward by the licensed victuallers, but the strike committee urged that houses should not be opened until the strike was over, It was decided to close the hotels until 10 a.m. on Tuesday next, subject to a further extension.