TIMARU STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 May 1913, Page 5

TIMARU STRIKE.

SIGNS UF BREAKING-UP

(By Telegraph.—Fress Association.) TIMAIUJ, Last Night. The wat.M'siders strike shows some signs of breaking lip. Three steam ers in port—the "W'anaka, Pet-on-?, and Invercargill—wer : -e worked to-day. In the forenoon from twenty to thirty unionists, railway men and members of the Waterside Union, assisted by free labour, worked all three vessels satisfactorily. The watersiders called a meeting at the dinner hour. It lasted till after 3 o'clock, and the places of the Unionists were filled by free men. It is -understood the meeting was spun out, waiting telegrams from the Federation headquarters, and that a number of the men were for turning to, but the majority ruled against it. They have another meeting in the morning. The farmers and business mai s committee purpose bringing m men to do all port work. The committee has a list of 200 men willing to come at an hour's notice. Seventy signed an undertaking to this effect at the Pleasant Point stock sale to-day. Home -shippers say they will give free men the first right of 'employment on ships to come. It is not known what the Union Company will do.

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