THE SEAMEN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 November 1913, Page 5

THE SEAMEN.

REPORT OF GENERAL STRIKE

UNFOUNDED

ATTITUDE OF CARRYING FIRMS

WELLINGTON. Last Night.

A meeting of the Wellington branch of the Sea men's Union was held yesterday morning, and Mr W. T. Young announced later that the crews of all tho ships should give 24 hours' notice. It was . reported that a conference of seamen was being held later, at which Dunedin and Auckland delegates were in attendance. Mr Belcher, however, when seen last night, stated emphatically that no conference had been held, and that the talk of a general strike of seamen wa« unfounded.

The carrying firms are in a >st" - of uncertainty a« to the attitude the drivers will adopt. ,

Already several men have complained to their employers of the terrorism and intimidation exercised by strikers, and some of them, in sell-ck-dence, have declined to undertake Tfork iw-vtsoinreotion . ivith . ttye

"Will you indemnify me against all damage to my horses and drays, and injury to my men and myself?" was the reply made to a firm anxious to have perishable things Removed from the Harbour Board's sheds.

The arrival of flour for Wellington/ landed at Wanganui and railed to Wellington, has been stopped by pickets.

it would seem, that the carters, whether they want to etrike or not, are betng coerced and terrorised into stopping work in connection with the shipping, except in the case of passengers' luggage.