AUCKLAND LABOURERS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10711, 15 October 1912, Page 6

AUCKLAND LABOURERS

A PARTIAL strike. || (By Telegraph—Press Association.) | j AUCKLAND, Last Night. l| As a result of two Borough Coun- 1 cils and two private contractors liav- H ing refused employment to workmen Hi wlu> took a holiday last Thursday to 1' participate in the Federation of La- | hour demonstration against the iill- 1 : prisonment of the Wailii strikers, the g General Labourers' Union held a | meeting to discuss the matter. It g was stated that sixty men had been I refused work. The members resolved 8 (by a 4 to 1 majority to cease work I J from 7 o'clock this morning until tho B j victimisation is removed. 'Jhere was I nothing like a general response, but a fair number failed to appear at various works. Of four hundred men employed by the Harbour Board, sixty did not start to-day. Of one hundred and twentv men employed by the Remuera Uoad B")a:d. one i hundred failed to appear. Ihe Drain- 1 age Board report- about fifty labourers on strike. The City Council workers are reduced by about the same number. The Morniilgside quarries have been closed owine to labourers going on strike. Only ten men failed to appear op the works ' of the Mount Albert Boroush. There ' is a disposition among local bodies to decline to again employ men going on ' strike, it is expected that some uni- ' form action will tie agreed on. .